Child Car Seats

There are two reasons why children have been killed as a result of car seats not providing enough safety during a crash. The first is faulty manufacturing and the second is lack of proper use of them by parents. Both of these causes are preventable and statistics show that properly manufactured and properly used infant and baby seats prevent deaths but parents often use them improperly

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an accident when the seat belt allowed the car seat to throw their daughter into the dashboard during a collision. Bryan had recently installed the baby seat and thought he had done it properly. What he did not know was that his car’s belts were not compatible with his baby seat and special equipment was required, “They found out too late that the seat belt in their 1991 Mercury Cougar was not compatible with their daughter’s child safety seat. But they also learned the belt could have been—if it had been modified with a supplemental buckle. Information about the buckle, provided and installed for free by the car manufacturer if requested, was buried in the technobabble of the car instruction manual” (Mooar, 1995, 1). Lawsuits and safety advocates have prompted car manufacturers and car seat manufacturers to work together in an effort to help design compatible systems and lessen the difficulty for parents of properly installing car seats. The government has also been involved. New child safety regulations were adopted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) which require that “all year 2000 vehicles and new car seats will have to be fitted with a tether anchoring system to make the seat more sec
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