PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - K M Venkat Narayan
AU  - D Ruta
AU  - T Beattie
TI  - Seat restraint use, previous driving history, and non-fatal injury: quantifying the risks
AID  - 10.1136/adc.77.4.335
DP  - 1997 Oct 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 335--338
VI  - 77
IP  - 4
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/77/4/335.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/77/4/335.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1997 Oct 01; 77
AB  - AIMS To quantify the increased risk of non-fatal injury when children travel unrestrained in a car, and to identify other preventable risk factors. METHODS Case-control study of 78 children presenting to an accident and emergency (A&E) department having sustained an injury while travelling in a car, and 97 children attending an A&E outpatient clinic with conditions unrelated to road traffic accidents. RESULTS Seat restraint was associated with a 93% lower risk of child accident injury. A driver with points on the licence was over five times more likely to have had an accident resulting in child injury than a driver without points. Child accident injury was also associated with the driver’s accident history. CONCLUSIONS These data allow the effect of achieving new target levels of seat restraint use to be estimated. Strategies aimed at reducing the risk of further accident among drivers with a history of accident may have a beneficial impact on childhood accident injuries.