Accidental Snack Aspiration Suffocation Injury
Children who travel for a long time need to eat food. When the car is traveling on uneven roads or emergency braking, children may accidentally inhale snacks such as jelly, candy, and cookies into their airways, causing airway obstruction and suffocation, endangering their lives.
Parental strategy: The first aid method should be to hold the child upside down and press the stomach, increasing the child’s intra-abdominal and chest pressure through impact pressure, and squeezing out the food inhaled into the airway. If it still cannot be relieved, parents should quickly take their child to a nearby hospital.
Emergency braking inertia injury
When encountering sudden braking, children’s necks are highly susceptible to excessive inertial impact, causing injury. Compared to adults, children have a larger proportion of the head, resulting in greater stress on the neck; Especially the bones of infants and young children are extremely fragile, and their necks are more susceptible to fatal injuries.
Parental strategy: When driving, preparing child specific safety seats or cushions can effectively prevent the harm of sudden braking.
Adult hug squeezing injury
Most parents are accustomed to carrying their children while riding, but little do they know that the impact force generated by a person in a high-speed collision accident is equivalent to the weight of an elephant. In this situation, parents may not only fail to respond and protect their children, but may also cause compression and, in severe cases, internal bleeding in the child.
Parental strategy: Do not hold your child in the car. If possible, try to let your child sit on their own.
Injury caused by external movement, scraping, and collision of limbs
Children have poor self-control and control. When the car window is opened, they unconsciously extend their limbs out of the car, making them vulnerable to being scraped by roadside trees and fences. What’s even more dangerous is encountering rear overtaking from the same direction.
Parental countermeasure: When children ride in a car, do not open the window lock casually and try not to sit in a window position.
Airbag ejection impact injury
The airbags in the front seats of cars are a safety guarantee for adults, but they are very dangerous for children. Because children’s musculoskeletal structure is much more fragile than adults, the impact force when airbags are opened can lead to dangerous situations such as chest rib fractures in children.
Parental countermeasure: Children should not sit in the passenger seat when traveling.
Fatal injury caused by accidental opening of car doors
Children are naturally lively and active, with poor self-protection awareness, especially during rapid driving. If a child accidentally opens the car door, they will be thrown out of the car.
Parental countermeasures: When driving, the child should be watched over by family members when sitting in the back row of seats to avoid accidents.
Hard object piercing damage
Children holding lollipops, toy guns and knives in their hands are highly likely to be stabbed by objects once the car changes gears or brakes suddenly.
Parental strategy: Provide children with plush toys in the car.
Apply tying and cutting damage
Due to children not being tall enough, using adult seat belts directly in the back seat of a car may cause the seat belt to cross the child’s neck, causing strangulation or cuts. When a traffic accident occurs, children may also be thrown out of their seat belts.
Parental countermeasure: Child and adult seat belts are not compatible. The best solution is to add a child specific safety booster seat cushion in the car, and then fasten the adult seat belt, which is more suitable.
Air conditioning exhaust gas poisoning injury
Opening the air conditioning for a long time in winter and summer can cause the air inside and outside the car to be unable to circulate, especially when the car is stopped. Continuing to operate the air conditioning can cause carbon monoxide emitted by the engine to accumulate in the car. Due to the underdeveloped nervous system of children, carbon monoxide poisoning is highly likely to occur when resting or sleeping in the car.
Parental countermeasures: If a child experiences symptoms such as lack of energy, nausea, and vomiting during prolonged driving, parents should first consider the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning and immediately open windows for ventilation.
Close and open door and window pinch damage
If the car door cannot be pushed to the correct position when opened, the slight rebound force can easily pinch the child’s fingers. The simple operation of electric windows is more likely to cause fingers or even head and neck injuries from glass windows.
Parental countermeasure: When children are riding, be careful not to let them open doors and windows.
