Barry McCahill Tel. Every day, eight children under 15 die and nearly 900 are injured in traffic crashes.
NADA enthusiastically supports efforts to educate the public about auto safety.
Nurses will offer training for auto dealership staff on how to properly install child safety seats and the danger of permitting children to ride in pickup cargo beds. Recht estimated that about 80 percent of child safety seats are not installed correctly. According to Recht, about 200 people riding in pickup cargo beds die annually in crashes, and about half are under 18. Similarly, more than half of the 673 children under five killed during 1994 while occupants of passenger vehicles and large trucks were not in child safety seats or using safety belts.