To ensure that your precious cargo is
safe during the summer trips, check out theses helpful tips on car seats.
Engineers are working hard to ensure that
cars and car seats are designed to keep kids as safe as possible. But it’s up
to every parent to take full advantage of these innovations by making sure car
seats and booster seats are used and installed correctly. Here’s what you need
to know to ensure that your most precious cargo is safe in cars.
Hard Facts
Road injuries are the leading cause of
preventable deaths and injuries to children in the United States. Correctly
used child safety seats can reduce the risk of death by as much as 71 percent.
Top Tips
· Seventy-three percent of car seats are not
used or installed correctly, so before you hit the road, check your car seat.
Here’s a quick car seat checklist to
help you out. It takes only 15 minutes. If you are having even the slightest
trouble, questions or concerns, certified child passenger safety technicians
are able to help or even double check your work.
· Learn how to install your car seat for free.
Safe Kids hosts car seat inspection events across the country where certified
technicians can help make sure your car seat is properly installed. They will
teach you so that you can always be sure your car seat is used correctly. Find
a Safe Kids car seat checkup event near you.
· Buy a used car seat only if you know its
full crash history. That means you must buy it from someone you know, not from
a thrift store or over the Internet. Once a car seat has been in a crash, it
needs to be replaced.
· We know that when adults wear seat belts,
kids wear seat belts. So be a good example and buckle up for every ride. Be
sure everyone in the vehicle buckles up, too.
· Never leave your child alone in a car, not
even for a minute. While it may be tempting to dash out for a quick errand, the
temperature inside your car can rise 20 degrees and cause heatstroke in the
time it takes for you to run in and out of the store.
Learn More
While it may seem like you need an
engineering degree to figure out which child safety seat is best for your
child, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered.
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