Citation

Williams AF, Wells JK. Am. J. Public Health 1981; 71(2): 163-165.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Public Health Association)

DOI

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PMID

7457685

PMCID

PMC1619623

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.

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