Optimizing the Rear Seat for Children (April 2013 Report)

Optimizing the Rear Seat for Children (April 2013)
The latest CPS Issue Report provides specific recommendations for optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles to better protect older children and adolescents, its most common occupants. A review of the current science suggests bringing front seat safety technologies into the rear seat may reduce the risk of serious injury for rear seated occupants. In addition to engineering solutions, the report also recommends policies and programs to increase rear seat restraint use.

Download the report here:

http://injury.research.chop.edu/traffic-injury-prevention/child-passenger-safety/child-passenger-safety-tools/child-passenger-safety