• Child Passenger Safety Site:  An excellent source of information on all facets of child passenger safety, including how to install safety seats, which seats to use, school bus safety, state laws, etc.
  
  
• Child Seat Inspection Stations:  Find out where the nearest child seat inspection stations are in your area by using this handy searching tool.
  
  
• Child Passenger Safety Contact Locator :  Locate individuals nationwide who have been certified by NHTSA to perform child safety seat inspections.
  
  
• Child Transportation Safety Tips: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides detailed advice about choosing, installing and using the appropriate car safety device for your child.
  
  
• Child Seat Safety Recall: Information on child seat recalls through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Recall Analysis Division, Office of Defects Investigation Safety Insurance.  Campaign listing: January 1990-April 2000.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): National professional association for pediatricians that provides information to parents and healthcare providers about children's health. Numerous resources on child passenger safety and booster seats are available.

Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS): The ACTS web site has a wealth of information on keeping children and adults safe in motor vehicles.

Boost America!:   Sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.  This site provides a useful parents' guide, colorful and detailed brochure in English and Spanish, and a host of other resources and links.

Cars.com: Child Seat Safety: A Parent's Guide.  Most parents are installing child-safety seats in their vehicles incorrectly. This guide tells parents how to avoid making the same mistakes.

Car Safe Kids: If you live or work in King County, WA, visit this site to learn about educational classes and inspection clinics in your area.

Child Passenger Safety Web: Sponsored by the Center for Injury Prevention, a national organization dedicated to helping local communities and groups protect children. The goal of the website is to enhance child passenger safety advocacy skills in education, public information, legislative advocacy, enforcement and technology.

Center for Disease Control (CDC): "Safe on the move": Resources for being safe on the move from injuries in car, bicycle, motorcycle, and pedestrian crashes.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Current child restraint laws listed by State from the Highway Loss Data Institute.

Kid Car Safety Calculator:  Enter  the weight and age of your child to receive a recommendation on which seat to use. Sponsored by the Minnesota Safety Council.  Also included on this site is the Snappy Safari with Rivera the Tiger, and other materials for kids and parents.

KidsHealth for Parents: Information on car seat devices and positioning and child transportation safety.

National Partnership on Booster Seat Safety: The National Partnership on Booster Seat Safety has launched a new Web site to promote the use of booster seats for children who have outgrown their child safety seats but are not ready to use standard seat belts. The Web site is managed by the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) with support from the CarMax Foundation; the site is part of an effort to expand HMHB's work on occupant-protection issues. The Web site's resources page contains links to federal recommendations, a list of recalled products, videotape demonstrations for parents, a database of state laws, state-by-state reports of crashes involving children, creative resources for teachers, and more. The site is intended for use by families, health professionals, and policymakers in their efforts to save lives and prevent injury through booster seat safety education and advocacy.

National Safety Belt Coalition: The National Safety Belt Coalition serves as a clearinghouse of information and materials, providing support and assistance in implementing highway safety programs as well as useful materials, ideas, speakers and technical assistance.

National Safe Kids Campaign: The National SAFE KIDS Campaign's mission is to prevent the number one killer of children - unintentional injury.  This site has a wealth of information on child car seat safety.

ParentingPlace: ParentingPlace has dedicated a section of their website to Car Safety for Children. There are so many questions and concerns by parents and caretakers regarding Car Seat Safety and Air Bag Safety for children. This section addresses these issues, provides useful information as well as weblinks to other sites dedicated to Car Safety for Children. There is also a discussion board, an 'In the News' section as well as special event & checkup information.

Partners for Child Passenger Safety: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia joins with the University of Pennsylvania and State Farm Insurance Companies to create the first comprehensive investigation of how and why children are injured or killed in motor vehicle crashes.

SafetyBeltSafe USA: An exceptional source of information for parents, including answers to most frequently asked questions, links to additional information and materials.

Safety Restraint Coalition: The Safety Restraint Coalition is a key resource in Washington state for child passenger safety. It provides technical information on child safety seats, offers child passenger safety trainings and certification classes, and coordinates advocates for traffic presentations and events, such as car seat checks.

Washington Traffic Safety Commission: The Washington Traffic Safety Commission serves as the lead agency for occupant protection program coordination in Washington State. The WTSC contracts with the Safety Restraint Coalition for the coordination and implementation of child passenger safety programs in Washington.

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