The Tennessee child restraint law in its third year.
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 71 (2) , 163-165
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.71.2.163
Abstract
Observations of child travel were made in Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee, and Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky about two and one-half years after the Tennessee child restraint law went into force. Use of child restraints anchored by seat belts increased in Tennessee from 8 per cent prior to the law to 29 per cent, compared to a change from 11 to 14 per cent in Kentucky, which does not have a child restraint law. Travel in arms, a hazardous practice permitted by the law, was at the same level in Tennessee and Kentucky as prior to passage of the law.Keywords
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