DPS Reminds Drivers to Put Safety First During Child Passenger Safety Week

AUSTIN, TX (NEWS RELEASE) – Little one Passenger Security Week is Sept. 18-24, and the Texas Division of Public Security (DPS) is reminding drivers to verify your younger passengers are secured correctly as a way to save lives.

Motorized vehicle crashes proceed to be the main explanation for demise amongst youngsters. On common, two youngsters beneath the age of 13 had been killed, and an estimated 374 had been injured, on daily basis in 2019 whereas using in passenger automobiles in keeping with the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA). Whereas most individuals imagine their youngsters are correctly buckled up, NHTSA estimates about half of all automotive seats are misused.

DPS gives the next ideas to make sure youngsters are correctly restrained whereas using in a car:

• When choosing a automotive seat in your youngster, guarantee it suits in your car correctly earlier than buying it.
• Keep away from buying a automotive seat in case you are not conscious of the historical past (i.e. yard gross sales, social media platforms, and so on.).
• Mannequin good conduct to younger passengers and ensure you might be sporting your seat belt so your youngsters will comprehend it’s the best factor to do.
• Toddler automotive seats ought to at all times be rear-facing, and by no means used forward-facing.
• Remember to test the utmost peak and weight limits of the automotive seat so youngsters could also be correctly transitioned to the subsequent one.
• For older youngsters who’re utilizing booster seats with lap belts, make sure the belt is throughout the pelvic space and the shoulder belt strap is positioned throughout the shoulder. It ought to by no means be positioned alongside a baby’s neck or stomach space. It ought to by no means be used beneath the arm or behind the again because it might trigger extreme damage in a crash.
• Texas legislation states all youngsters youthful than 8 years outdated, until taller than 4′9″, are required to be within the acceptable automotive seat wherever they journey in a passenger car. The automotive seat MUST be put in in keeping with the producer’s directions.
• Youngsters 8 years and older have to be in a seat belt, if an grownup hasn’t correctly restrained a baby, they will obtain a $250 ticket.

When you’ve got questions, please request set up help from a Nationwide Little one Passenger Security Technician at one among our native DPS places of work. Further data is accessible on the DPS web site.

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