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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. ... Traffic Safety Administration ...
Car seat safety statistics and car seat death statistics are never easy to read. ... 711 children aged 12 and under were fatally injured in a car crash in 2021 and 63,000 were injured in 2020 ...
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 ...
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.
Providing information and car seat safety instructions to parents and caregivers is one way to save lives. [16] Safe Ride News published a 44-year timeline of child passenger safety advancements, spanning a protest by physicians for automotive safety in 1965 to revisions in school bus seating standards in 2008. [17]
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
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.
After congressional hearings were held in September 2000, Congress, in only an 18-hour span, passed the TREAD Act in October 2000. The Act was signed into law by President Clinton on November 1, 2000, and has been amended into the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, codified at 49 U.S.C. §§ 30101 – 30170 .