Additional Analysis of National Child Restraint Use Special Study: Child Restraint Misuse
The National Child Restraint Use Special Study (NCRUSS), conducted in 2011, recorded the use of car seats and belt-positioning booster seats in children from birth to 8 years old in 4,167 vehicles. Observers approached vehicles that carried at least one child. They interviewed the drivers and recorded observations of the restraint of one child per vehicle. Observers collected detailed information on drivers, vehicles, the restraint status of the child, the child’s car seat (if present), the installation of the car seat, and specific use of the car seat to restrain the child (e.g., harness placement and tightness). This included each driver’s self-reported confidence in the correct installation of the car seat. “Misuse” was defined as a characteristic of installation or use of a car seat/booster seat that may reduce the protection of the child in a crash. Installation did not have to be perfect. Only deviations that might compromise the protective function were defined as misuses for the purposes of the NCRUSS. Descriptive results can be found in Greenwell (2015a, 2015b), including descriptions of the single most common misuse for each car seat type (Greenwell, 2105b). Research Notes using this dataset further investigated installation decisions, driver characteristics, and lateral movement (Raymond, Searcy, Miller, & Redden, 2018) and the characteristics of unrestrained vehicle occupants (Raymond, Searcy, Findley, Miller, & Redden, 2017). This analysis reports the further examination of the misuse of car seats and booster seats and those who misuse those devices.
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Authors:
- Raymond, P
- Searcy, S
- Findley, D
- Publication Date: 2018-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
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Serial:
- Traffic Safety Facts - Research Note
- Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Booster seats; Child restraint systems
- Identifier Terms: National Child Restraint Use Special Study
- Uncontrolled Terms: Misuse
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01698977
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: DOT HS 812 527
- Files: HSL, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Mar 18 2019 10:10PM