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Carolina Seatbelt Demonstration
The South Carolina Highway Patrol
believes that protecting our child passengers is one of our most important
missions. We want to train parents and caregivers on the proper way to install
child safety seats. We have specially designed half cars, which are retired
Highway Patrol cruisers redesigned to allow a person to view the proper
technique for installing child safety seats. If you would like a certified
child safety seat technician to bring the half car (link to picture of half
car) to your daycare or place of business to demonstrate the proper use of
child safety seat seats, please complete the following form and submit. All
requests will be filled according to troopers availability in the order the
requests are received by the Highway Patrol.
Riding unrestrained is the greatest risk factor to children in a motor vehicle
-- making them twice as likely to die or be severely injured in a crash.
Improperly restrained children also are far more likely to be injured, to
suffer more severe injuries, and to die in the event of a crash. Today, 95
percent of infants and 91 percent of toddlers age one to four are restrained in
safety seats. However, the bad news is that 85 percent of those children are
improperly restrained. The misusage rate in South Carolina is even more
alarming: more than 95 percent of children are improperly restrained. The
single most important thing you can do to protect your children is to buckle
them up properly, every trip, every time.
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