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Age, not height and weight, may be a better marker for assessing
risk to children riding in vehicles with air bags The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires warnings on motor
vehicles that children age 12 years and under can be seriously
injured or killed by an air bag. A new study concludes that the
risk of serious air-bag-related injury may extend to age 14 when
children in this age group are seated in the right front
passenger seat in vehicles equipped with air bags. Craig D.
Newgard, M.D., M.P.H., of Oregon Health and Science University,
and Roger J. L