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A new study released today found that 97 percent of Illinois parents don't know the state's child safety restraint laws, and 67 percent said "most parents with a young child do not have a clear understanding of how to correctly install and/or use child safety seats." For the record, Illinois law says kids in the car need to be in a "child restraint"—a car seat or booster seat—until they're 8 years old. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children under 14, according to AAA, and, and the NTSB says using proper restraints for kids could reduce injuries and deaths by 50 percent. [AAA, Seatcheck]
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Eight years old, right. Come on over and try and wrestle my seven year old into on of those contraptions and then you had better have a tranquiler ready for the drive.
The current car seat/seatbelt systems are a joke.
It is probably one the most glaring FIXABLE safetly deficits in our society. By the way, I happen to work with people who have been injured.
I see people all the time that have the child's seat way too loose. Sure, the belt might buckled to the car seat but the car seat is still sliding all over the place.
In fact, the stability of the car seat is totally depedent on the skill and strength of the person who is securing the seat to the belt. There should be a foolproof way to clip a carseat to the back seat of the car with SAME fixation every time.
Any smart inventors out there?