Here is part of a great article on car seats and children safety while in a motor vehicle.
A couple of generations ago, young children were barely restrained in child safety seats past their first birthday – if that. There were no clear safety standards in place for car seat manufacturers and no real laws requiring that parents use child safety seats. As a result, most parents didn’t use them or used unsafe seats. Things began to change as safety commissions like the CDC released research that indicated how likely small children were to become injured in a car accident without appropriate restraint.
Visit this site to read the entire article:
http://blogs.lawyers.com/attorney/automobile-accidents/child-safety-seats-save-lives-37973/
