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Show Davis Project: Infant Restraint A safety constructed car seat can reduce probability of death in a crash more than 95 percent. per-cent. INDIVIDUALS interested in the Infant Restraint Loaner Program must complete applications appli-cations at the Davis County Health Department, where seats are rented for $5, with a $10 deposit, until the baby reaches twenty pounds or age one. Safety courses which teach parents the correct usage of the car seat and which seats are best for their children are held weekly at the Davis County Coun-ty Health Department. Many children in Davis County will be much safer because be-cause of the Infant Restraint Loaner Program launched by the Davis County Health De,-partment. De,-partment. The project is intended in-tended to increase the number of children in the area who are buckled up in child restraints (car seats) while riding in motor vehicles. "I'VE NEVER seen a young patient injured in an automobile auto-mobile accident who was wearing a seat belt or crash tested safety seat," said Dr. Marion L. Walker, neurosurgeon neuro-surgeon at Primary Children's Medical Center. Car crashes are the leading cause of death to young children chil-dren ages 0-14. The Epilepsy Foundation feels that head injuries in-juries suffered from quick stops and swerves while driving driv-ing are one of the main contributing contri-buting factors to epilepsy. THE PROBLEM is to convince con-vince parents of the need to use these restraints as well as to buckle up themselves. Many parents believe that the .safest and most loving way to transport a small child or infant in a car is in their arms. They are certain that if an accident is about to occur they will have the time and strength to hold the child and protect him-her from injury. This is not true! The most dangerous place in a car for a child is in the arms of an adult. Even in crashes of 15-30 mph impacts, adults are unable to hold on to the infant-he infant-he becomes a "flying missle." THE SECOND major cause of death and injury to children in a car is being crushed by unrestrained adults. If more people knew how effective restraints are in protecting pro-tecting their children, more children would be buckled up. |
