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Safe Riders Home

Welcome to the Safe Riders Traffic Safety Program, sponsored by the Texas Department of State Health Services in cooperation with the Texas Department of Transportation. Safe Riders provides helpful information about child passenger safety (CPS), including links to related local and national websites.  For more information, please call Safe Riders at 1-800-252-8255 (informacion disponible en espanol)or send an email.

Click for overview of Safe Riders program services.

New child passenger law in Texas -- click on the "Child Passenger Law in Texas" button on the left.

 

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Videos

Securing Our Future (Asegurando Nuestro Futuro) is a video that provides basic information about child passenger safety. Designed primarily for parents, it provides an overview of the need for restraining children, types of child restraints and how to use them, and resources for additional information. You must have a recent version of the RealPlayer to play these videos.  You can find the free RealPlayer here.

realbubl.gif (903 bytes)Securing Our Future (time: 12:15)
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realbubl.gif (903 bytes)Asegurando Nuestro Futuro (time 15:26)
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Last Updated Sept. 25, 2009

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