Thread starter Unregistered Start date Mar 19, Unregistered Guest. This is an important factor in my decision making process. MelodyoftheForest Active member. Graco, Chicco,and Britax are generally not from what I remember. Infant bucket seats seem to be least likely to be made in the US, but they are out there.
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Chicco USA. Search Catalog Search. The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that children remain rear-facing for as long as possible before the AAP advised that it was fine to turn a child around at 2 years. The stringent rules surrounding infant car seats are merited. Despite the fact that deaths in car crashes have plummeted since the s, motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury death for US children. Crashes are the top injury death for those ages 5 to 19; suffocation is an even bigger risk for infants younger than 1, and more kids ages 1 to 4 die in drowning incidents than in car crashes.
The drop in car-crash fatalities is partly due to the now ubiquitous use of child-restraint seats, and both car seats and cars have continued to become safer over the past 15 years.
By , all 50 states had passed PDF child-restraint laws. Purchasing the right car seat and learning to install it properly may be one of the most critical choices you make for your child. While individual states are responsible for regulating how car seats are used, any car seat sold in the US must meet federal safety standards set by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
The NHTSA requires that all car seats meet certain benchmarks in crash tests that determine the force on the head and chest in a simulated front-facing crash. The NHTSA also tests car seats for ease of installation, as industry experts estimate that most car seats are improperly installed. Current front-impact crash testing relies on three measurements to judge safety performance: HIC head injury criterion , a composite measure that combines time and acceleration to measure the likelihood of a head injury in a car crash, and must be under 1,; G-clip also called the 3 ms chest clip , the chest-acceleration measurement, which should be under 60 g; and maximum seat-back angle to provide adequate neck support in a crash , which should be less than 70 degrees from vertical.
To ensure that the manufacturers are practicing due diligence and that their car seats are safe, every year the NHTSA conducts random compliance tests; the agency selects a subset of car seats and contracts a private crash-testing facility to run tests that simulate a head-on crash at 30 mph. If a car seat fails the test, a recall is instituted. European authorities rely on different—arguably more stringent—standards, including requiring car seat manufacturers to pass certification standards before putting a model on sale and requiring a side-impact standard in addition to front-impact standards.
A former senior official at the NHTSA told us that he believed that the anti-regulatory environment of the Trump administration meant the side-impact standard would be unlikely to move forward during the current presidency. Regardless, car seat manufacturers—including Britax, Chicco, Graco, and Uppababy—have submitted comments in favor of the proposed rule and are keenly aware of its impending existence.
Many car seat manufacturers already conduct their own side-impact testing, and a standard is already in place in Europe. If there is no contact, the seat is considered satisfactory. The proposed rule would also apply to car seats for older kids up to 40 pounds. Before the change of administration, the NHTSA had also been working toward upgrading to a more modern crash-testing bench, the design of which was the model for the one we had for our commissioned front-impact crash tests at the MGA labs in Wisconsin.
According to people familiar with the NHTSA, this effort is also unlikely to go forward until an administrator is appointed at the agency, and it may still not progress during this administration.
To find someone who can do a free car seat check, consult this national database. Tighten the straps: They should be snug enough that no excess webbing can be pinched. On an infant seat, the chest clip should fall in the vicinity of the armpits and nipples. Beware of falls outside the car: More infants strapped into car seats are injured in accidents outside the car than in actual car crashes.
If you are placing the car seat on a stable surface outside the car, rotate the handle down for additional support. Dispose of your seat after a crash: Any seat that has been in a significant accident needs to be retired. Seats also typically have an expiration date six or seven years from their manufacture date. Sarah Tilton, director of consumer advocacy, Britax, phone interview, May 31, William Conway, engineering leader, car seats, Graco, phone interview, June 26, Paul Gaudreau, senior program manager, car seats, Uppababy, phone interview, June 28, Our pick.
Chicco KeyFit 30 The best infant car seat The Chicco KeyFit 30 has better overall safety scores and is easier to install, adjust, carry, and click in and out than seats that cost much more. Britax B-Safe 35 For taller babies This infant car seat is easy to install properly and has a more generous height and weight limit than other seats we considered, but it may be too narrow for some kids. Buy from Amazon. Everything we recommend.
Care, use, and maintenance Sources. Why you should trust us. Who should get this. How we picked. Among the safest seats available: In our early analysis, we relied heavily on data from NHTSA, particularly the results of the front-impact crash testing that the federal agency performs annually.
However, since car seats are not required to be certified before sale, several of the seats we looked at did not have government crash-test data. Easy to install: A good car seat must be easy to install correctly, both with and without a LATCH system, so that a diligent adult following directions could manage a correct installation within a few minutes without expert assistance.
LATCH stands for Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children, a system that allows you to install a car seat with metal clips that attach to hooks built into the car, forgoing the lap belt.
Convenient to use: The car seat should have a handle that is easy and comfortable to use and adjust, as well as straps that are easy to buckle and adjust. The primary reasons the parents we spoke to cited for keeping a child in an infant seat longer were the convenience of clicking them in and out of the car and easy access to a compatible stroller.
Widely available, ideally in various colors or patterns: We wanted seats that you could purchase easily from multiple big retailers and that are available in a variety of designs. How we tested. To distinguish among the top infant car seats, we commissioned front- and side-impact crash tests, the latter of which are not currently required under federal law. Here, in footage from the independent lab tests we commissioned, the 1-year-old-sized dummy in the Chicco KeyFit 30 does not make impact with the door in a simulated 30 mph crash, which means a passing grade for the Chicco.
Our pick: Chicco KeyFit
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