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Parents' knowledge lagging on booster seat switch
Most parents don't know when to move kids from booster seat to seat belt, safety group Safe Kids Worldwide says. Group says 86% of parents move children too soon, increasing risk of injury in a crash.
Hannah Barger, 22 months old from Ridgeley, WV.
And nearly 9 in 10 parents are moving their children from booster seats Timberland Sylvia Park to a seat belt before they reach the recommended height, according to a new survey by Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of groups working to prevent accidental childhood injuries.
For years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American Academy of Pediatrics have Nike Nz.html recommended that children ride buckled up in car seats or booster seats until they're 57 inches tall and weigh between 80 and 100 pounds. The Academy also recommends that all children under age 13 ride strapped in in the back seat.
But a Safe Kids Worldwide General Motors Foundation Louis Vuitton Sunglasses Men survey of 1,000 parents of children ages 4 10 found that seven in 10 parents don't know about the height recommendation, and 86% of parents moved their child to a seat belt before they were 57 inches tall.
"Parents let their kids move out of booster seats far too early," says Kate Carr, president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide. "It was really startling to us how many parents did not know how tall their children had to be before they could safely move them from a booster seat into the regular seat in a car."
Seat belts and shoulder restraints generally don't fit properly on children shorter than 57 inches tall who are not in booster seats. This increases their risk of abdominal injuries, such as a lacerated spleen of kidney injury, and facial injuries in a crash, Carr says.
Booster seats reduce the risk of serious injury by 45% compared to seat belts alone for children 4 8, according to a 2009 study in Pediatrics.
NHTSA first recommended in 1999 that children use a booster seat until they're at least 57 inches tall.
The knowledge gap among parents when it comes to booster seats might reflect the fact that there's been a greater education focus on infants in car seats but less emphasis on older children, says Jeff Boyer, vice president, global safety at General Motors. "As children get out of the infant stage, I'm not sure parents are quite as aware of" the safety recommendations, he says.
Motor vehicle crashes were the second leading cause of death for children 4 10 year sold in 2011, surpassed only by cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Safe Kids online survey also found that 16% of parents allowed their children to ride in the front seat even though they're not yet 13.
Fatou Benoit, 34, of Boynton Beach, Fla., has long been very careful about trying to use proper restraints for her children: Her 9 year old brother, Karim Fall, was ejected from an SUV in 2010 when the vehicle crashed and rolled and he wasn't in a booster seat or wearing a seat belt. He sustained a head injury and a broken arm and was in a coma for two days before eventually recovering.
So, Benoit says, she was vigilant with her own Ray Ban Nz Online children. Even so, she says, when her daughter, Kiara, was 13 months old, she decided to turn her car seat from rear facing to front facing. "A friend told me Kiara was not ready for that yet," Benoit says.
Trooper Jason Sylvester of the Nike Dunk High Heels Michigan State Police has seen far too Nike Heels.Co.Nz many examples of what can happen when children are not properly restrained in vehicle crashes.
A few months ago, he got a shocking reminder of what can happen when they are. Sylvester, who is also a certified child passenger safety technician, was participating in a car seat check event last March at a fire station near Three Rivers, Mich. A woman came in with her three sons; Sylvester replaced two of the seats in their pickup truck Nike Heels Wholesale and adjusted the third.
They left and 5 10 minutes later, crews from the fire station responded to a crash. It was the mother and the three boys: Their pickup had skidded off the icy road and Tiffany Necklace rolled over.
When Sylvester got to the crash scene, the shaken mother was rendered speechless, but nobody was hurt.
