Sentences with phrase «seat belt use alone»

Booster seats have been shown to reduce the risk of serious injury by 45 percent in children aged 4 - 8 when compared with seat belt use alone but there are reportedly lower rates of proper restraint use among older kids.

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Booster seat use, compared with using seat belts alone, reduces the risk of serious injury by 45 % for children aged 4 - 8 years.

However, most seats can still be used with the vehicle belt alone.

When children are old enough and large enough to use the vehicle seat belt alone, they should always use lap and shoulder seat belts for the best protection.

October 23, 2009 — A study released today in Pediatrics by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers updated evidence that children ages 4 to 8 who are restrained in the rear seat of a car in a belt - positioning booster seat are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children using a seat belt alone.

Using a booster seat with only a lap belt is more dangerous than using the lap belt aUsing a booster seat with only a lap belt is more dangerous than using the lap belt ausing the lap belt alone.

CHOP Research has shown that the use of belt - positioning booster seats lowers the risk of injury to children aged 4 - 8 years by 45 percent compared with the use of seat belts alone.

Children 2 - 6 years old in child safety seats (including child restraints and belt - positioning booster seats) are about 28 percent less likely to be fatally injured than those using safety belts alone.

However, faced with the need to restrain a booster - age child in a lap belt - only seating position, real - world crash data from two large crash databases suggest that it is safer to place the child in a booster secured with the lap belt rather than using the lap belt alone.