Use of Child Safety Seats in Metropolitan Areas of Virginia during Summer 1996

摘要

The Transportation Safety Services of the Department of Motor Vehicles has, for anumber of years, requested observational surveys of child safety seat use in the Commonwealth. The present survey was conducted in the summer of 1996 in the four metropolitan areas of the state where 54% of Virginia's populations resides. The data were categorized as correct use, incorrect use, and no use for children judged by the survey team to be under age 4, that is, those required to be in a child safety seat under state law.