Misuse of Child Safety Seats Increases Risks by Ten Times for School-age Children (Newswise)

Published on: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:17:58 GMT

A Dalhousie researcher has found that school-aged children in Canada are 10 times more likely than children in other age groups to die or sustain severe injury in road crashes. Misuse of safety seats and failure to use of booster seats use are primarily responsible for these high rates of automobile deaths and injuries. More »