There’s a decent chance your kid’s car seat is installed wrong
Photo: NHTSA
Ensuring your kid’s car seat is safe and properly installed shouldn’t be that difficult, right" You read the instructions, maybe watch a YouTube video, follow the steps, and you’re good to go.
Or not.
In a recent safety clinic in Kingston, Ont., a whopping 100 percent of drivers were found to have unsafe or improperly installed car seats. Kingston Police and volunteers from Seats for Kids, a organization that specializes in ensuring caregivers know how to install car seats safely, checked car seats in 72 vehicles and found safety issues with every single one of them.
No doubt every parent spends plenty of time worrying about their child?s safety, so why do so many have trouble getting it right" ?There are a lot different components to think about,” says Jen Shapka, an instructor with Child Passenger Safety Association of Canada. “And how you use the seat changes as the child grows.? It doesn’t help, she says, that the manuals can be difficult to read. With all the steps, and so many warnings and alerts, it can be overwhelming. “It gets to the point that, when everything is important, nothing is important,? she says. She also points out that it’s not always about human error; when parents have car seats that are expired or damaged?as 15 were in the Kingston clinic?it?s often because parents simply can?t afford to buy a brand new one.
Some seats in the Kingston clinic needed to be removed and discarded. O...
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