Starting with a baby's very first ride home from the hospital, parents must make sure that their kids travel safely. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in children, and more kids die in automobile crashes than in any other type of unintentional injury.
Protect your kids by making sure they ride safely.
Using a child safety seat (car seat) is the best protection you can give your child when traveling by car. If you need help installing your safety seat or want to be sure you did so correctly, there are child seat inspection stations across the country. Find one near you.
Booster seats are vehicle safety seats for kids who have outgrown forward-facing or convertible car seats but are still too small to use only a vehicle's seatbelts.
Learn more about booster seats.
Air bags were designed with adults in mind. But young children can be injured or even killed if they ride in the front passenger seat and an air bag opens.
To protect kids from air-bag injury:
Reviewed by: Melanie L. Pitone, MD
Date Reviewed: Jan 1, 2021