South Carolina Department of Public Safety

South Carolina Highway Patrol

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 come 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.