Survey of child car safety
v Plunket Society volunteers - will help to conduct New i P Zealand’s biggest child car- < e; safety survey in the next i - few weeks. J: The volunteers, from more e:than 50 Plunket branches,;, will make “street corner” .. tj surveys of cars carrying; r, children from babies to 14 1 r > years of age. n Details > be recorded will[> include how many- children • - are travelling in a car. n! where they are sitting, and s, whether they are wearing e seat belts or other safety' de-; vices. s The information from an e estimated 25.000 observap dons will be fed into a com-: ’. puter for processing early ; -[next year. ” The survey, which is Plun-i Iket’s contribution to nextj
year's International Year of the Child, will also include a questionnaire for 500() mothers of children aged less than eight. • Car seats for children aged between seven months and three years will also be tested as part o,' the survey. All results of the survey will be released next April.
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Press, 2 December 1978, Page 4
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