Group advocating child passenger safety wins NHTSA public service award

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) presented Safe Kids Buckle Up with their Public Service Award at the annual Lifesavers conference in Nashville, TN.  Safe Kids USA runs a comprehensive child passenger safety program, and the award cited the organization’s “outstanding contributions to the safety of America's children on and off the road and for leadership in improving occupant protection legislation”.

This isn’t the first time that Safe Kids Buckle Up has been recognized as providing and excellent and much needed service.  The program received a Governors Highway Safety Association Peter K. O’Rourke Special Achievement Award in September 2008.  The award cited Safe Kids Worldwide as “the largest child passenger safety program of its kind, teaching parents and caregivers how to correctly use car seats, booster seats and seat belts”.  In addition, the program was commended for providing car seats to needy families for little or no cost.

In June 2008 the program was also recognized by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) when they received a Safety Leadership Award.  They were honored for installing more than one million child safety seats for families all across America.  The NTSB Chairman said that he believed the organization had saved hundreds of children’s lives with their program.

We applaud the Safe Kids Buckle Up program for the excellent work that it does keeping America’s children safe.  You can read more about child safety in our library articles “New Report Shows Car Seats Save Lives in Auto Accidents”, and “Focus on Infants: Is Your Child Passenger Safe?”