RF Crash Stats

Sap

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Just out of curiosity, since car accidents are the leading cause of death for children 1 and up, and children under 1 are in rear facing car seats, does anyone know the stats on fatalities for toddler rear facing?
 
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Jeanum

Admin - CPS Technician Emeritus
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Bumping this back up in case anyone has a link. I'm not aware of a source for such a stat myself.
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
It might just be that the kids under one are dying from much worse problems, check out this CDC chart... http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe

And here's the breakdown of how kids who could still be rearfacing die... http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/brok...=lcd1age&ethnicty=0&ranking=10&deathtle=Death

It does seem that RF would probably help some (and remember that a good proportion of children killed are in no restraint at all, and if they are in one, it's likely misused... so even just getting kids properly restrained, if not rearfacing, is a good goal for safety advocates). And look at all the drownings :(
 

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