Highway Safety Advocacy Group Calling For New Attention To Fatal Crashes Putting Kids At Risk

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — With Child Passenger Safety Week starting Sunday, the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety said much attraction needs to beryllium paid to the summation of centrifugal conveyance clang fatalities due to the fact that children are astatine accrued risk.

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an confederation of consumer, medical, nationalist health, instrumentality enforcement, and information groups, and security companies and agents moving unneurotic to amended roadworthy information successful the U.S. The group’s ngo is the adoption of national and authorities laws, policies, and programs that forestall centrifugal conveyance crashes, prevention lives, trim injuries, and incorporate costs.

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The radical cited an summation successful fatal crashes, documented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, successful the archetypal 3 months of 2021. These numbers corroborate the continuation of a inclination that started past year, marked by increases successful speeding and impaired driving and decreases successful seatbelt usage are actions children person nary power over, according to a connection from the group.

Children besides are astatine hazard arsenic in-person acquisition successful schools resumes.

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“We impulse each parents and caregivers to marque definite their children are decently secured successful vehicles according to their property and size. We besides telephone connected lawmakers crossed the state and successful Congress to beforehand proven information solutions to trim centrifugal conveyance crashes, injuries, and fatalities,” Cathy Chase, the group’s president, said successful the statement.

The radical besides is calling for caller authorities laws to support kid passengers, improved schoolhouse autobus safety, preventing children’s injuries oregon deaths erstwhile they’re near successful blistery cars, and improving kid rider information laws, immoderate of which person been languishing astatine NHTSA for much than 5 years, according to the statement.

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