When it comes to children and seatbelts, parents may not be fearful enough. 10% of parents don’t feel they need to buckle their child in EVER. (Their faulty reasoning is that they didn’t buckle as a child and they didn’t have an accident). More parents than that don’t think they have to buckle their kids in town.
Every time you blink, a child is injured in a car accident.
In most fatal car crashes, the children were not buckled in or weren’t buckled properly.
Up to 50 percent of parents do not have their children buckle up for in-town driving.
An NHTSA survey found that a full 72 percent of children were not seated and buckled correctly.
More than 50 percent of child car accident fatalities could be prevented by seat belts.
High school–age boys are more likely than girls to rarely or never wear seat belts.
This is Paranoid Parents Stat #051 out of #765. Find a comprehensive explanation of parenting facts vs. parenting fears in the Paranoid Parents Guide.
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