CHP working to keep kids safe in vehicles
The California Highway Patrol has partnered with the California Office of Traffic Safety to implement the Children Held in Proper Place Every Ride campaign.
The CHIPPER campaign will run for one year focusing on reducing the number of children killed in traffic collisions throughout California. The CHP will host educational seminars, classes, and child safety seat inspections.
Officer will also be conducting enforcement operations concentrating on occupant restraint violations throughout the year with a special emphasis during the national “click it or ticket” campaign and national Child Passenger Safety Week.
Child passenger safety seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and 54 percent for toddlers in passenger cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports. CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System recorded 198 unrestrained children (age 7 and younger) killed in traffic collisions throughout California in 2014.
So we require parents to put their kids in the back seat of the car to give them better protection in case of a crash, but then parents sometimes forget that the kid is sleeping in the back set and leave them in the car and the kid dies when it gets too hot in the car. That way the kids are 54-71% less likely to die in a crash, but the number of kids dying in hot cars goes up by probably a couple of orders of magnitude[an “order of magnitude” means 10 times]. Has anyone ever considered what the net result is? Maybe we should allow parents to decide whether it is best to take the risk of death in a crash or death from being “out of sight, out of mind” in a hot car.
Get used to the agents of government sticking their noses further and further into your personal family business. You’re no longer allowed any 4th amendment rights in your car; and the ACA has given the State even more leverage to control how you conduct your private life.
Of course it’s all to protect you. For your own good.
To protect people who cannot protect themselves. Kids are not able to make critical decisions by themselves. Some adults cannot make critical decisions by themselves. Some just make stupid decisions that affect others around them. Some just say stupid things.
Right. Government intervention always makes us safer. Whether they have the right or not.
D’oh!
Wow, Dogula thinks government is evil. Who woulda thunk it?
Sorry, Reader, but you should check the real stats before making presumptive statements. Yours are 180 degrees wrong.
In California alone, roughly 50 children would have survived the crashes that killed them last year had they been properly restrained, and an estimated additional 250 would have been killed had they not been. Add to that the thousands who were needlessly injured or would have been. Now, compare that to the average year when 1.5 children die in the state as a result of being left in a hot car. Real numbers, real facts, real kids, real lives.
If someone doesn’t believe that rules of the road are necessary for the overall safety of all, they should feel free to exercise their personal liberty and freedumb and stay off them-or move somewhere with no speed limits or traffic controls-D’umb
Thanks to the CHP for being proactive by having free child safety seat instructions and their overall participation in national Child Passenger Safety Week-
Hi folks if you need a little help with installing your child safety seat Tahoe Douglas Fire can help with certified inspectors that will teach caregivers how to properly install seats and keep kids safe while traveling on the roads during the busy holiday season and all year! According to NHTSA about 9 out of every 10 childseats has errors with instalation and car crashes remain a leading cause of death for children. It can be prevented. Tahoe Douglas Fire Department helping to give the gift of safety visit our website at http://www.tahoefire.com
Tea total. Exactly!