Child Passenger Safety Program

Through education, training, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0-16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle. While great progress has been achieved in recent years in preventing child occupant deaths and injuries, and increasing the correct use of child safety seats, booster seats and safety belts thanks in no small measure to the tireless dedication of NHTSA and its many partners in the child passenger safety community more work needs to be done to protect child occupants who remain at heightened risk.