Posted by: euser
March 03, 2009
Topic: Product Liability/Warnings

A must read article about child car seat safety!

Is your Car seat installed correctly? How did your car seat do in crash testing? Do your car and your car seat optimize your child's safety? Do you own a quality car seat or just an expensive car seat?

The link below takes you to an article from the Chicago Tribune from March 1, 2009, written by Patricia Callahan. This article brings to light many questions and realities of the car seat safety testing done currently by the seat manufacturers and the government. Summarizing this article would not do it justice so please read in its entirety.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090301/NEWS07/90228066

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