Jennessa Lever
Type 1
Assignment: Your first assignment for the next class will be to use the news feeds in this blog and find an article that pertains to traffic safety and post it to your blog and write a short reaction summary to the article.
Traffic Safety Officials Want To Improve Child Seats
Variety, Installation Methods Confusing
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Participants in the meeting said the variety of car seats and installation methods has led to confusion. And safety advocates worry that too few parents know how to properly install seats or understand the safety benefits.
The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Nicole Nason, said the government will pursue an education campaign this year to improve the public's understanding of car seats, upgrade its consumer ratings system for the seats and issue new rules to improve the system.
"Properly installing a car seat should not be a daunting process for parents," Nason said. "Our children are precious and parents and caregivers must have the information they need to properly install their car seats."
In December, Nason called for the summit after a new survey conducted by NHTSA found that many parents were unaware of either the existence or the importance of a new system of anchors built into newer vehicles, and specifically designed to hold and anchor car seats.
The summit will focus on how to increase the correct use of these so-called Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH) systems, which come standard in vehicles made after 2002.
Nason said one of the key goals of the meeting is to make sure parents and caregivers have clear guidance on proper car seat and LATCH use, whether from the car seat manufacturer, vehicle owner’s manual or the retailer. In addition, the NHTSA is looking into ways to improve its ease-of-use ratings, as well as mandatory child seat safety performance, she said.
"We want to make children as safe as possible, give the best information and make the technology available to protect children in vehicles," Nason said.
The meeting came less than a month after Consumer Reports retracted a report on infant car seats. Government officials said crash tests on the seats were conducted at drastically higher speeds than the magazine had asserted.
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Reaction: I think that this summit is a great idea. Teaching Parents how to use their child’s car seat properly is good because it will help them to protect their children if they do get into a collision. Clearing up the confusion of how to set up the different types of seats so they are secured properly is also a good thing to help parents to understand.
Second Assignment: Post these 9 risks and describe your thoughts on whether a crash could occur while driving with these 9 risks. Could any of these risks been eliminated or minimized to avoid a collision?
Risks:
13) Broken Steering System
29) No Air Bag
58) Worn Steering System
78) Thinking about things at Home
99) Listening to Radio
137) Improper Passing
163) Narrow Bridge
210) Vehicle in left-rear blind spot
222) Skateboarder falls on side of road
Of Course a collision could occur with these 9 items, a collision could occur with any one of them, having 9 just gives you more of a chance of getting into a collision. If the Skateboarder on the side of the road was not there then, if I was driving, I would not have to attempt to stop, or swerve, which would make my risk of collision a lot lower.
1 comment:
Good Job. Could have gone into a little more detail on how to solve the 9 risks.
Mr.Cohun
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