October 18-24 is National Teen Driver Safety Week. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens (15-18 yrs old) in the United States, ahead of all other types of injury, disease, or violence.
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Don’t move your child from a car seat to a booster seat until they have outgrown their harnessed car seat.
Early transitions from car seats to booster seats decrease your child’s safety. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents delay transitions as long as possible because each transition comes with some decrease in safety.
Remember:
Don’t move your child to a booster seat early. Children should stay in each seat until they outgrow the maximum height or weight limits of that seat. Just because your child can move from a rear-facing seat to a forward-facing seat or from a forward-facing harness seat to a booster doesn’t mean they should.
Check the label. Many forward-facing seats with an internal harness can fit a child weighing up to 65 pounds, and some even fit children who weigh up to 85 pounds.
If your child is in a forward-facing seat with an internal harness, make sure you’re using the seat’s tether. The tether is a strap connected to the seat that attaches the car seat to tether anchors built into the car, preventing the harnessed seat from tipping in a crash. Without it, children can move farther forward or to the side in a crash, putting them at risk of brain and spinal injuries — or death.
What to know:
Check your car manual. The location of the tether anchors varies by vehicle.
Follow the instructions in the harnessed seat manual for how to attach the seat’s tether to the tether anchors.
Booster seats are designed to lift the child up so that seat belts for adults fit the child. They are needed until the adult seat belt properly fits the child, which is typically the case when a child is about 4 feet, 9 inches tall.
What to know:
The shoulder belt should go across the middle of your child’s shoulder and be off the neck, and the lap belt should be low and tight across the child’s upper thighs.
Your child must be mature enough to sit up straight and not wriggle around. An out of position child is an unprotected child and can be ejected from the seat during a crash.
Obviously we’re happy that they’re using our seats, and I think 80 to 90% of the cars tested by Euro NCAP use our seats. They’re free to choose any supplier and they do comparison tests and essentially most just find that the safety score they can obtain with our seats is better.
They’re looking for a seat that performs well in crashes, that installs easily and that has high quality. It also has to be consistently available in the region where the car sells.
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