A survey drivers' child restraint choice and knowledge in South Australia.

This report is based on the study of child restraint choices in a sample consisting of 357 drivers in Adelaide who were transporting 586 children of ages up to 10 years. The main survey result was that the rate of appropriate restraint was between 64% and 72% (according to the relevant Australian and New Zealand Standard). Appropriate restraint use was lowest for children in the age range 5 to less than 7 years. Drivers almost never mentioned cost as a barrier to child restraint use. Further development of the Standard may enable age to be used as a criterion (rather than weight, as at present) to simplify advice to parents.