AIR BAG-ASSOCIATED FATAL INJURIES TO INFANTS AND CHILDREN RIDING IN FRONT PASSENGER SEATS -- UNITED STATES
Air bags, when used as a supplement to safety belts, effectively prevent deaths and serious injuries in frontal motor-vehicle crashes. Air bags are standard equipment in most new cars; federal safety standards require that all new passenger cars and light trucks be equipped with both driver- and passenger-side air bags by 1999. The safety of air bags is well documented, and air bags have saved an estimated 900 lives since the late 1980s; however, special precautions are needed to safely transport children in vehicles equipped with air bags. Reports of eight deaths of child passengers in crashes involving air-bag deployment are of special concern because they involved low-speed crashes that the children otherwise might have survived. This report summarizes three of these eight cases.
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Corporate Authors:
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA United States 30333 - Publication Date: 1995-11-17
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 845-847
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Serial:
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
- Volume: 44
- Issue Number: 45
- Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services
- ISSN: 0149-2195
- EISSN: 1545-861x
- Serial URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Age; Air bags; Child restraint systems; Fatalities; Front seat occupants; Infants
- Uncontrolled Terms: Air bag deployment
- Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00715463
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 8 1996 12:00AM