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Car Seats: Product Listing for 2018
The following is a list of car seats. Manufacturer names are boldfaced. Weight is in pounds [lb] and height is in inches [“].
News
Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.
Current booster evaluations
IIHS ratings take the guesswork out of selecting boosters most likely to provide good lap and shoulder belt fit in a range of vehicles. Unlike child restraints with built-in harnesses, booster seats rely on vehicle safety belts to restrain children. Boosters are supposed to make adult belts fit children better and are for kids who […]
Booster Seats for School-Aged Children
Booster seats are for older children who have outgrown their forward-facing seats. All children whose weight or height exceeds the forward-facing limit for their car seat should use a belt-positioning booster seat until the vehicle seat belt fits properly, typically when they have reached 4 feet 9 inches in height and are 8 through 12 […]
Car Seats: Information for Families
One of the most important jobs you have as a parent is keeping your child safe when riding in a vehicle. Each year, thousands of young children are killed or injured in car crashes. Proper use of car safety seats helps keep children safe. But with so many different seats on the market, many parents […]
Alabama’s Electronic Citation System (eCite)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has honored Alabama by requesting a presentation on the successes of our eCite project at the International Traffic Records Forum in August 2011. The draft of the PPT presentation briefly summarizes the history and the benefits realized to the state. A conservative estimate of the savings from data […]
eCrash Codes for Person Datasets
Download eCrash Codes for Person Datasets
The Future Car: Driving a Lifestyle Revolution
The automotive industry is undergoing a revolution unlike anything we have seen since horses replaced cars. This revolution will reveal the future car, which will change how we live our lives. Certainly this car will be autonomous. It will make travel and commuting more affordable. Most importantly, it will deliver a customizable experience that will […]
Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis
This Guidebook was developed to provide a framework for transportation agencies to take the steps needed to advance toward implementing a risk‐based, systemic pedestrian safety management process to reduce pedestrian crashes. It aims to: Provide rationale and motivation for taking a systemic approach; Clarify key terms and definitions; Describe the data needs for a systemic […]
Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine hosted a forum on July 8 & 9 to talk about preparing for automated vehicles and shared mobility. The forum included topics such as: Top ten research need and the next steps to address these needs Strategic research questions Cross-cutting issues
Input Requested: Development of CPR LifeLinks Implementation Toolkit
The Office of EMS seeks public input on current effort by October 1st, 2018 More than 350,000 people experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the U.S. each year; less than half of them receive bystander CPR before professional first responders arrive, even though early CPR is known to greatly increase an individual’s chances of survival. CPR […]