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Under NHTSA guidelines, if any of these apply to your collision, you should replace the car seat: The vehicle cannot be driven away from the crash site. The door nearest the seat was damaged.
Placing children in appropriate car seats and booster seats reduces serious and fatal injuries by more than half. [6] All infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing seat until they are at least of two years of age. [7] All 50 states require child seats with specific criteria. Requirements vary based on a child's age, weight and height. [8]
A child safety seat, sometimes called an infant safety seat, child restraint system, child seat, baby seat, car seat, or a booster seat, is a seat designed specifically to protect children from injury or death during vehicle collisions. Most commonly these seats are purchased and installed by car owners, but car manufacturers may integrate them ...
Safety seats for kids under 40 pounds will now have to pass a side-impact test that replicates a 30-mph side collision. Manufacturers have three years to comply.
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) are U.S. federal vehicle regulations specifying design, construction, performance, and durability requirements for motor vehicles and regulated automobile safety-related components, systems, and design features.
The American Academy of Pediatricians now says that children should ride in the seat rear-facing until they reach the height or weight limit for the seat. New guidelines for child car seats drop ...
Audits by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2021 have concluded that NHTSA is ineffectual [further explanation needed]; the 2021 audit found NHTSA failing to issue or update Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards effectively or to act within timeframes on petitions and ...
80, seats of large passenger vehicles and of these vehicles with regard to the strength of the seats and their anchorages 81, rear-view mirrors of two-wheeled power-driven vehicles 85, internal combustion engines or electric drive trains intended for the propulsion of motor vehicles of categories M and N with regard to the measurement of the ...