Standardized

Child Passenger Safety

Training Program
Winter 2004

Child Passenger Safety

in Other Vehicles
Objectives
• Describe and analyze the safety issues
related to pickup trucks and cargo areas
• Describe how school bus occupant safety
issues differ from passenger vehicle’s
• Analyze transportation safety issues
related to paid contractors

Other Vehicles - 2 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Objectives
• List and discuss the current FAA
regulations and recommendations
regarding CPS
• Describe special factors of occupant
protection in emergency vehicles

Other Vehicles - 3 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Pickup Trucks/Cargo Areas

• Standards same as
passenger cars
• Some equipped with
air bag on/off switch
• Many conflicts with
CPS (e.g., side-facing
jump seats)

Other Vehicles - 4 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Pickup Trucks/Cargo Areas
Concerns

• No rear seat
• Narrow rear bench
seat
• Limited interior space
• Jump seats
• Cargo areas not for
passengers

Other Vehicles - 5 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Pickup Trucks/Cargo Areas
Recommendations

• Try another CRS

• Air bag on/off
switch
• May need another
vehicle

Other Vehicles - 6 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

A jump seat (side facing) is an
appropriate choice for a CSS when?

B) Never
C) When the CSS fits snugly between the
seat belt anchors
D) When 80% of CSS base is on the jump
seat
E) When cargo areas are already full

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

A jump seat (side facing) is an
appropriate choice for a CSS when?

• Never
• When the CSS fits snugly between the
seat belt anchors
• When 80% of CSS base is on the jump
seat
• When cargo areas are already full

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School Bus Safety Issues

• Statistically the safest

transportation
- Larger & heavier
- Lower risk travel
- Conspicuous
- Meets stringent
FMVSSs

Other Vehicles - 7 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School Bus Safety Issues
• Safer than cars
• Only .2 percent of fatal crashes
• Occupant protection features:
- Compartmentalization
- Safety belts: required on small buses
- Installed on all new buses in some states
- Requirements for use varies

Other Vehicles - 8 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School Bus Safety Issues
Compartmentalization

20 in. min

SRP

24 in. max

Other Vehicles - 9 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

NHTSA School Bus Safety
Recommendations
• Guidelines for Safe
Transportation of Pre-
School Age Children in
School Buses
- Recent NHTSA testing re:
transport of preschoolers in
CRS
- Easiest to use small buses
with belts
- Integrated CRS seats
available
- Retrofit lap belts only as
manufacturers recommend

Other Vehicles - 10 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School Bus Safety Occupant
Protection Requirements
• Large buses >10,000 pounds
- Compartmentalization required
- Check with manufacturer for belt retrofits
- Integrated CRSs
• Small buses <10,000 pounds
- Safety belts required
- Lower LATCH anchors required in at least 2
seating positions (but tether anchors not
required in school buses)
- Easier to install CRSs
Other Vehicles - 11 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004
Children With Special Health Care
Needs
• Individual Education Plan (IEP)
• National Standards for School
Transportation
• Special needs occupant restraint systems
- Appropriate selection
- Use of approved devices

Other Vehicles - 12 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

FAA Issues

• No restraint required birth-2 years

old
• Turbulence and survivable crashes
• Inversion test
• MUST be labeled for airplane use

Other Vehicles - 13 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

FAA Issues

Allowable CRs:
- Rear-facing
- Forward-facing to 40 pounds
- Safety belt over 40 pounds
- NO boosters or vests

Other Vehicles - 14 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School bus compartmentalization is
a result of …?
A) Enclosed areas under bus seats
B) Additional padding in walls and roof of
bus
C) High padded seat backs with wide
spacing between seats
D) High padded seat backs with narrow
spacing between seats

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

School bus compartmentalization is
a result of …?
• Enclosed areas under bus seats
• Additional padding in walls and roof of
bus
• High padded seat backs with wide
spacing between seats
• High padded seat backs with narrow
spacing between seats

Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Emergency Vehicles

Issues:
- NO side facing seats
- NO CRSs with safety screen in LE vehicle
- Use in certified anchor locations
- Secure loose objects
- Transport non-injured child in alternate
vehicle

Other Vehicles - 15 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004

Emergency Vehicle
Recommendations
• Training
• Access to CRs
• Develop and follow
protocols

Other Vehicles - 16 Standardized CPS Training Program - Winter 2004