PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mofenson, Howard C.
TI  - Letters to the Editor
DP  - 1973 Sep 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 464--464
VI  - 52
IP  - 3
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/52/3/464.1.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/52/3/464.1.full
SO  - Pediatrics1973 Sep 01; 52
AB  - Each year 1,000 children under the age of 5 are killed riding in automobiles and another 60,000 suffer disabling injuries. Crash protection does not mean holding a child on the lap of the parent. If an automobile strikes a solid object or comes to a sudden stop the unrestrained passenger continues forward at the rate of speed of the car until stopped by a surface within the vehicle or ejected through the windshield. The geometric increase of the child's weight would not allow the parent's arms to restrain the child.