CAR SEAT SAFETY LINKS Child Passenger Restraint Laws Child Seat Safety Tips Installing Child Seat Safety Seats RELATED LINKS Minnesota Information Department of Transportation www.seatcheck.com Minnesota Child Passenger Safety Program Mdewakanton Emergency Services 2525 Flandreau Trail NW Prior Lake, MN 55372 (952) 233-1077

SERVICES / CAR SEAT SAFETY The Mdewakanton Emergency Serices department offers child seat safety checks. The Mdewakanton Emergency Staff is trained to help educate parents on the correct way to keep their child restrained in an automobile. Child Restraint System Statistics Motor vehicle crashes account for 42% of all unintentional childhood injury-related deaths Over half of the occupants involved in a fata motor vehicle crash under the age of 15 were unrestrained. Child Restraint Systems are 71% effective in reducing infant deaths and 54% effective in reducing toddler deaths Child Restraint Systems are misused in 8 out of 10 times