Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children in the United States.
State Farm® has had a longtime interest in improving auto safety, going back to the 1950s, when we helped found the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Today, State Farm is helping save children’s lives through our involvement in PCPS; the first academic-corporate partnership devoted to the safety of children in motor vehicles.
PCPS is a research collaboration between, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, the largest auto insurer, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the nation’s first pediatric hospital.
This program aims to better understand how and why children are being killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes.
The PCPS research method is unique, combining interviews, on-site crash investigations and computer crash simulations with interdisciplinary analysis.
Since 1997, PCPS has created the largest source of data on children involved on motor vehicles crashes. This data is valuable for vehicle and restraint design, public policy and parent education.
PCPS reports are published regularly in leading medical and engineering journals and presented at scientific conferences.
The PCPS team also conducts ongoing outreach to the automotive and restraint community, policy makers and legislators, public health educators, and the media to improve the safety of children riding in vehicles.
State Farm and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are striving to ensure that the PCPS project will significantly help reduce deaths and injuries to children in motor vehicle accidents.
What will this partnership do for child passenger safety?
“Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among children. State Farm and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are to be commended for engaging in a joint effort which can do so much to advance our knowledge of what happens to children in car crashes and what can be done to eliminate the mechanisms of their death and injury.” — Dr. Ricardo Martinez, former Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
It is the hope of State Farm and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that the Partners for Child Passenger Safety project will find recommendations to significantly help reduce deaths and injuries to children in auto accidents.
“State Farm has had a longtime interest in improving auto safety, going back to the 1950s, when we helped found the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,” explains Laura P. Sullivan, Vice President-Counsel, and Secretary of State Farm Mutual.
She continues, “Results of the study are to be shared with parents, medical providers, auto manufacturers, and public policy makers in the hope that they lead to more effective safety laws and improvements in car designs and restraint systems.”
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