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Tag: car seat safety
Winter Coats and Car Seats
‘Tis the season for dealing with winter coats and car seats for our young ones. It’s getting cold! And it will officially be winter in a matter of […]
Car Seat Gift Guide
What better gift for the holidays than a gift of safety and comfort in the car?
Car seats may not be the most exciting gift but keeping a loved one safe if there is a crash can mean more than toys or electronics. The fact is car crashes are the number one cause of child fatalities for children between the ages of 1 and 13. Car crashes are also the largest cause of fatal injuries for pregnant women and their unborn babies. […]
How safe is your car seat? A car seat safety quiz
Surveys show that 9 out of 10 (90%) parents think they are using the right child restraint in the right way for their child. Yet according to Safe […]
The Car Seat Safety Statistics: Car Crashes Are The #1 Killer Of Children
Do you know the car seat statistics show the leading cause of death to children ages 3-14 in the United States is motor vehicle crashes? In 2017 in the United States, 794 children ages 12 years and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes. (Of all the children who died in a crash in 2017, 37% were not restrained.)
Placing children in age- and size-appropriate car seats and booster seats reduces serious and fatal injuries by more than half. […]
The General History of Car Seats: Then and Now
Originally “child seats” started out as nothing more than burlap sacks with a drawstring that hung over the headrest on the passenger’s seat. People designed early car seats simply to lift the child to allow him to look out the window and to keep the child more or less in one spot in the car. […]
Seat Belt Entanglement
Are you asking what is seat belt entanglement and what does it have to do with my child? Seat belt entanglement is when a child is being strangled […]
Choking on the Road: Don’t Let Your Kids Eat While You Are Driving
Unfortunately, driving and (kids) eating just don’t mix. It’s not worth the risk of choking. As a CPS technician, I can’t tell you how many times a parent […]
Going Forward Facing Too Early – WAY Too Early
Nearly 25% of parents turn their child forward facing too early, even before the child turns 1. A University of Michigan survey asked a randomly selected group of […]
Using the Car Seat Harness Correctly
Car Seats Series #4 : Harnessing Learning to use the Car Seat Harness correctly is important because four of the most common car seat mistakes parents make involve […]
