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Children and Seat Belts:
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt…Your Child
Nothing is more heartbreaking and devastating to a family than the serious injury or death of a child. Auto manufacturers have known for decades that there is a safety gap which leaves children between 4 and 8 years old, and those who are between 80 and 100 pounds, dangerously vulnerable to serious injury during vehicle accidents. Despite this knowledge, many vehicle manufacturers have still not taken the steps required to protect these precious passengers.
Smaller children, such as infants or toddlers, are usually strapped into special safety restraints and child safety seats. Older and bigger children can safely be restrained by most adult seat belts. However, the children in this middle group have been largely ignored by the automobile industry.
In short, the problem is that children in the middle group are too big for most after-market child safety seats but too small to be properly restrained by adult seat belts. The solution, according to most child safety experts and industry observers, is to fully integrate age and size appropriate child and booster seat restraints with five point harnesses into the vehicle seats themselves. Rather than take this measure, automakers continue to deflect responsibility for the safety of children onto the after-market child safety seat industry. If those products were in fact adequate to protect this vulnerable age and size group, thousands of children would still be alive and healthy today.
In addition to this “safety gap,” many of the same design and manufacturing defects discussed above with regard to adult restraints also affect the safety of child safety seats. In fact, according to the NHTSA, more than 42 million child safety seats have been recalled because of safety-related defects since the Motor Vehicle Safety Act went into effect in 1966.
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