@article{ref1,
title="Seat restraint use, previous driving history, and non-fatal injury: quantifying the risks",
journal="Archives of disease in childhood",
year="1997",
author="Narayan, K. M. Venkat and Ruta, D. and Beattie, T.",
volume="77",
number="4",
pages="335-338",
abstract="AIMS: To quantify the increased risk of non-fatal injury when children travel unrestrained in a car, and to identify other preventable risk factors. METHODS: Case-control study of 78 children presenting to an accident and emergency (A&E) department having sustained an injury while travelling in a car, and 97 children attending an A&E outpatient clinic with conditions unrelated to road traffic accidents. RESULTS: Seat restraint was associated with a 93% lower risk of child accident injury. A driver with points on the licence was over five times more likely to have had an accident resulting in child injury than a driver without points. Child accident injury was also associated with the driver's accident history. CONCLUSIONS: These data allow the effect of achieving new target levels of seat restraint use to be estimated. Strategies aimed at reducing the risk of further accident among drivers with a history of accident may have a beneficial impact on childhood accident injuries.",
language="",
issn="0003-9888",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}