Are we there yet? Canada's progress towards achieving road safety vision 2010 for children travelling in vehicles.
This study examines safety seat use among Canadian children and evaluates child safety seat use relative to the national policy for child occupant safety, Road Safety Vision 2010. Using a probability sample, roadside observations of car safety seat use were collected from May to October of 2006 for 13,500 children aged from birth to 9 years in 10,084 vehicles at 182 sites in nine Canadian provinces and one territory. Observations revealed that 89.9% of Canadian children were restrained in some type of restraint. However, only 60.5% of these children were restrained in the correct safety seat. When comparing rates of correct use across provinces, results were not significantly different in provinces with booster seat legislation and those without this legislation. This data may be useful for healthcare practitioners and policy makers to develop interventions aimed at increasing appropriate car safety seat use for children in Canada.
Snowdon
Anne W
AW
Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. snowdon@uwindsor.ca
Hussein
Abdul
A
Purc-Stevenson
Rebecca
R
Bruce
Beth
B
Kolga
Carol
C
Boase
Paul
P
Howard
Andrew
A
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000367:Age Factors; D001336:Automobiles; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D057207:Child Restraint Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012449:Safety; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data