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Lifesavers Conference 2025

Child Passenger Safety

Making Kids Safer: New Research & Regulation (CEU 1.0)

Sunday, March 9, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM PT
Location: 104-C

    Moderator(s)

  • Michael E. Toups, B.S., CPST-I, Crash Reconstructionist

    State Coordinator, LA Passenger Safety Task Force, Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office Reserve Program Supervisor
    University Medical Center New Orleans, Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
    Houma, Louisiana

    • Speaker(s)

  • Joseph M. Colella, CPSTI

    Director of Child Passenger Safety
    Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association
    Beaufort, South Carolina

  • AP

    Aloke K. Prasad

    Mech. Engr
    National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    East Liberty, Ohio

Research, innovation and regulation are interrelated components that help make children safer in vehicles. This session discusses two safety areas where progress continues to be made. The first will discuss NHTSA research into preventing pediatric vehicular heatstroke (PVH), including the scope of the problem, conditions that result in PVH, and unattended child reminder systems (UCRS) that use either indirect sensing or direct sensing technologies. The second looks at new side-impact and frontal car seat regulations, FMVSS 213a and 213b, which will improve child restraint information and performance in a wider variety of crashes.