Child Passengers
Stats & Facts
In 2009, 10 children less than eight years of age were killed and 1,649 were injured as occupants in motor vehicle crashes in Missouri.
The 2009 data from 21 survey sites revealed a child safety seat usage rate of 91 percent for children under age four.
Ninety-four percent of surveyed children under age four were located in the back seat of the vehicle.
Missouri’s child safety seat survey revealed that when drivers are not buckled up, 28 percent of children were not restrained either, but when the driver was buckled up, only 2 percent of the children weren’t restrained.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, three out of four child safety seats are improperly installed.
Car crashes are the number one killer of children.
