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A well-known luxury baby car seat retailer has issued an urgent recall for one of its popular infant car seats.. Nuna Baby Essentials, Inc. announced the recall of approximately 608,786 widely ...
Nuna Baby Essentials is recalling more than 600,000 of its Rava line of car seats over a harness defect that could cause the restraint system to fail in a crash.
Car seats are designed to absorb some of that force to keep the child in the seat safe. The plastic of a car seat can be damaged or weakened by a crash, even if the seat doesn’t show any signs ...
A study of car crash data from 16 U.S. states found that children under the age of 3 were 43% less likely to be injured in a car crash if their car seat was fastened in the center of the back seat rather than on one side. Results were based on data from 4,790 car crashes involving children aged 3 and younger between 1998 and 2006.
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death in children in the United States. [4] In fact, a child under 13 is involved in a crash every 33 seconds. [5] Education and proper use of air bags, car seats, booster seats and seat belts helps save lives and can prevent injuries and deaths on our nation’s roads every day.
Another of NHTSA's activities is the collection of data about motor vehicle crashes, available in various data files maintained by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis, in particular the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS, where technicians investigate a random sample of police ...
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.
This standard originally specified the type of occupant restraints (i.e., seat belts) required. It was amended to specify performance requirements for anthropomorphic test dummies seated in the front outboard seats of passenger cars and of certain multi-purpose passenger vehicles, trucks, and buses, including the active and passive restraint ...