Selected Articles from Safe Ride News

CPS Technicians
      1.Recall lists compared
      2.Innovative materials-SBS USA
      3. CPSP list-serve
      4. Credit for nurses' training
      5. CPS Technicians course update

Child Restraints (Car Seats)
     1. New NHTSA policy on replacement of CR
     2. Replacement of CR after crash—CA law
     3. Child restraint upgraded (FMVSS 213)
     4. Booster effectiveness
     5. Confusing strap height advice for rear-facing child
     6. The Forgotten Child (booster seat)
    
Editorials
   1. Support parked car legislation
   2. The best insurance: doing it right
   3. Maintaining skills
   4. Controversial policy change
   5. Why invest in CPS (child passenger safety)
   6. Use of tethers for children over 40 pounds
   7. Rating provides new opportunities to teach
   8. Saluting volunteers
   9. National funding issues
   10. Ambulance issues

Other
    1. Children's Death Toll: Traffic Crashes vs Other Causes
    2. Teen Drivers

Programs
   1. Pediatricians as advocates
   2. Working with physicians
   3. Fitting station operation
   4. Involving Spanish-speaking college students
   5. Services for new immigrants
   6. Hospital special needs in action

Policies, Laws
   1. Drinking drivers kill young passengers
   2. Lives lost due to lack of primary belt laws
   3. US map showing current seat and seat belt laws
           Child law coverage (pdf)
           Adult seat belt law coverage (pdf)

Related Issues
   1. Aircraft
         Airline travel with kids
   2. All-terrain vehicles
   3. Ambulance
         A. Occupant protection: an overview
         B. Research on ambulance transport of children
   4. Parked cars
   5. Pregnancy
   6. Wheelchair

School bus / child care transport
   A. NY school district report and research
   1. How kids get to school: risks high in cars
   2. Bus safety news
       Buckling up preschoolers on school buses: a summary (pdf)
   3. Vans for child transport I
   4. Vans for child transport II
   5. Booster use in child care
   6. NY school district report and research

Vehicle issues, CR installation
   1. Air Bags
          A. Side air bag controversy
          B. Study: Side impact Air Bag effectiveness
          C. Understanding advance air bags
               1. Air bag terms
          D. Air Bag warnings reinforced
          E. Misuse of Air Bag switches
   2. LATCH-Tether
          A. LATCH insights
          B. Q & A on LATCH
          C. Tether-LATCH update (pdf)
          D. Confusion over tether anchor weight limits
   3. Other
          A. Rear seat use reduces risk
          B. Features of 2004 vehicles (pdf)
          C. Tips Issued to Prevent Babies Being Left in Cars