6 Critical Child Car Seat Best Safety Rules To Observe

Possession of a cozy car is the dream of the average Family, but how many actually observe Child Car Seat Best Safety Rules to the latter?

There are many who tend to just dump the child or children on the seats, possibly with toys to play with or snacks to deal, partly as a way of containing their restless nature.

The exact percentage of drivers that ensures the seat belts have been strapped appropriately can really be a subject of conjecture, even when it shouldn’t actually be a matter of choice.

But that is what poll’s conclusion is: most parents are not following Child Car Seat Best Safety practices, as key as they are.

Conducted by Harris Poll for August 2024, The Eagle highlights 5 key points deduced from parents and guardians who drive children, also infusing afterwards submissions from two experts, Rivian Michelle Pratt, founder of Safe in the Seat.

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• key points from the Harris Poll:

1. 16 per cent of parents admitted they did not always use a car seat when they should have while transporting their youngest children in a car. That goes up for Gen Z and younger Millennial parents (aged 18-34),
2. 21 percent of which say they did not always use a car seat.

• Respondents selected cost (61 percent) and safety (53 percent) as the top two vehicle attributes when considering a purchase or lease.

1. Parents with children age of 12 under selected safety as the top vehicle attribute.

So, what are the 6 critical child car seat best safety practices observe

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1. Child safety starts before the car is even turned on, with proper seats occupied and restraints employed.
2. Parents should always remove a puffy coat before putting their child in the car seat.
3. Parents should also always ensure a newborn’s car seat is at a proper recline angle and they are tightly and properly harnessed.
4. When a child is facing rearwards, make sure their harness straps are at or just below the shoulders. When forward-facing harness straps should be at or just above their shoulders.
5. The seat’s chest clips on the child seat should always be at armpit level.
6. The car seat should only be turned from rear-facing to forward-facing once the child maxes out the height limit, weight limit or head height limit of their car seat