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How safe is your child when he or she is buckled into a car booster seat? Unfortunately, the answer is perhaps not as safe as you would like.

At least that's what officials with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) say. According to a story in the USA Today, nearly half of children's car booster seats can't guarantee a proper fit with all car safety belts, potentially endangering the lives of children who are involved in a motor vehicle accident.

According to the IIHS, booster seats are designed to raise children up so that safety belts designed for larger riders (i.e. adults) actually fit them. The problem is, not all booster seats on the market today do this properly.

"A lot of parents don't understand that the purpose of the booster seat is to ensure the vehicle safety belts fit the child, because if they don't there is a potential for injury," said Anne McCartt, the IIHS's research chief.

In fact, if the safety belts holding children into their booster seats don't fit properly, children can hit parts of the vehicle during a car crash and might even be injured by the seat belts themselves.

This is unfortunate news because booster seats are extremely important safety tools. To illustrate, The USA Today story reported that children from the ages of 4 to 8 are 45 percent less likely to suffer injuries in an auto accident if they're sitting in booster seats as opposed to being merely strapped in with safety belts.
Manufacturers singled out by the institute's study said that the company used a testing method that was too generic. One was even quoted by USA Today as saying that after selling 10 million booster seats in the last decade it did not know of any injuries that resulted from an improperly fit belt.

Still, those parents with any type of doubt may wish to consult the IIHS test results ...

What do you think of these findings? Do you feel that your child's booster seat will adequately protect them in a motor vehicle accident?

Source: USA Today, "Car-safety group: Half of child booster seats pose risks" Oct. 13, 2011

How safe is your child when he or she is buckled into a car booster seat? Unfortunately, the answer is perhaps not as safe as you would like.

At least that's what officials with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) say. According to a story in the USA Today, nearly half of children's car booster seats can't guarantee a proper fit with all car safety belts, potentially endangering the lives of children who are involved in a motor vehicle accident.

According to the IIHS, booster seats are designed to raise children up so that safety belts designed for larger riders (i.e. adults) actually fit them. The problem is, not all booster seats on the market today do this properly.

"A lot of parents don't understand that the purpose of the booster seat is to ensure the vehicle safety belts fit the child, because if they don't there is a potential for injury," said Anne McCartt, the IIHS's research chief.

In fact, if the safety belts holding children into their booster seats don't fit properly, children can hit parts of the vehicle during a car crash and might even be injured by the seat belts themselves.

This is unfortunate news because booster seats are extremely important safety tools. To illustrate, The USA Today story reported that children from the ages of 4 to 8 are 45 percent less likely to suffer injuries in an auto accident if they're sitting in booster seats as opposed to being merely strapped in with safety belts.
Manufacturers singled out by the institute's study said that the company used a testing method that was too generic. One was even quoted by USA Today as saying that after selling 10 million booster seats in the last decade it did not know of any injuries that resulted from an improperly fit belt.

Still, those parents with any type of doubt may wish to consult the IIHS test results ...

What do you think of these findings? Do you feel that your child's booster seat will adequately protect them in a motor vehicle accident?

Source: USA Today, "Car-safety group: Half of child booster seats pose risks" Oct. 13, 2011

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