The Mdewakanton Emergency Services 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 fatal 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