Control (n = 27): attention control (AC); mothers in the AC group were given educational information about infant safety including information on fall prevention, poisoning, fires, and burns during the first visit, about choking / aspiration, suffocation, drowning, and smoking during the second visit, and
about car seat safety during the final visit.
A week after a Broward County infant was killed when the passenger - side air bag in her mother's van inflated, the Florida Highway Patrol is issuing a statewide warning to motorists, urging precaution.On Oct. 15, 7 - week - old Jasmine Brown of Pompano Beach died in her child -
safety seat when the passenger - side air bag in the van inflated
during a minor collision.Gail Nesmith, the infant's mother, told FHP she had placed Jasmine in the child -
safety seat, and turned the
seat away from the front of the
car.The accident, which occurred when Nesmith's van broadsided a Chevrolet at
about 25 mph, caused the bag to inflate, pushing the child
seat against the
car seat with the force of a Category 5 hurricane, the FHP said.