The NTSB declared 2011 the Year of the Child and initiated a study on children involved in general aviation (GA) accidents and incidents. The NTSB’s Child and Youth Transportation Safety Initiative promotes child occupant safety in all modes of transportation with a focus on educating parents and caregivers about ways to keep children safe when travelling. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued several recommendations on the subject of the mandatory use of CRS for infant passengers, the appropriate use of safety harnesses for children, and educating the public on the risks associated with not using a CRS for children under the age of 2. A comprehensive review of the scientific literature on child restraint systems (CRS) in aviation, specifically that addressing the protection from injuries in survivable aviation occurrences for children under 2 years old, as well as accident reports, concluded that in order to provide safety equivalent to that of adult passengers, infants “should be seated in a suitable CRS on a seat of their own.” The report authors further conclude that, “the transport of lap-held infants secured with or without a loop belt does not provide any protection to the infant.” Previous recommendations for child restraint systems National Transportation Safety Board In addition, the adult dummy folded over the infant dummy trapping and crushing it in the process. Canada and the United States do not allow the supplementary loop belt because research has shown that infants so restrained fare worse than unrestrained infants because of the adult’s forward movement during severe impact and the concentrated forces of the supplementary loop belt on the infant’s abdominal region.Ī 2004 Australian study found that, although the infant anthropomorphic dummy attached with a supplementary loop belt was restrained during dynamic testing, it underwent significant forward excursion resulting in severe impact of the infant dummy’s head with the forward seatback. Many jurisdictions (e.g., European Union, Australia, New Zealand) permit, or even require, lap-held infants to be restrained with a supplementary or a belly loop belt, which attaches to the adult’s seatbelt and goes around the infant’s abdomen. Last month, the LTO conducted an enforcement planning workshop to identify and align activities that will guide all LTO regional and district offices in the enforcement of the law.International policies regarding the use of child restraint systems Recognizing the need to effectively implement the new law, LTO Law Enforcement Service Director Clarence Guinto in his closing remarks affirmed that everyone in LTO will be on-board in enforcing the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act. 11229 will be enforced effectively and ultimately to make roads safer for children,” said Natasha Daphne Marcelo, Project Manager for the road safety project of ImagineLaw. Through the support of the Global Road Safety Partnership, ImagineLaw continues to extend our help to LTO to make sure that R.A. “Data shows that requiring the use of CRS in motor vehicles can reduce the number of road crash-related deaths and injuries of child passengers on Philippine roads. LTO law enforcement officers (LEOs) will also participate in a training program to prepare them for enforcing RA 11229. With this donation, LTO is set to undergo training for fitting station operators and fitters on the installation, use, maintenance, and inspection of CRS.
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11229, the law which will require drivers of private vehicles to secure children 12 years old and below in CRS while traveling in motor vehicles,” said LTO Law Enforcement Service Deputy Director Roberto Valera during the ceremonial turnover of the CRS units.Įach LTO Regional Office will receive one set of CRS consisting of a rear-facing CRS, a forward-facing CRS, and a booster seat for use in capacity-building activities for LTO personnel. “This initiative is very timely because we are only a few weeks away from the implementation of R.A.
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(R.A.) 11229 or the “Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act” this February 2021. The Philippine Land Transportation Office (LTO) received 54 child restraint system (CRS) units from public interest law organization ImagineLaw, in preparation for the implementation of Republic Act No.