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By Ginny Beauchamp
A car safety organization recently publicized research regarding car seat use. It shows many parents are not using the seats correctly.
Safe Kids USA has been checking cars for proper seat use and installation since 1997, and has surveyed 1.4 million car seats.
Lorrie Walker is the organization's Safe Kids Buckle Up program's training manager. She said the new results are troubling.
Walker said the research supported their belief that parents are still using car seats incorrectly.
"Safe Kids USA is releasing a study of 79 thousand check list forms that we've completed in a one year period between '09 and '10 where we actually climbed in people's cars and helped them do a proper installation with their children in their car seats."
She said the technicians show parents how to install the car seat so it doesn't move more than one inch in any direction while the car is moving.
A car safety organization recently publicized research regarding car seat use. It shows many parents are not using the seats correctly.
Safe Kids USA has been checking cars for proper seat use and installation since 1997, and has surveyed 1.4 million car seats.
Lorrie Walker is the organization's Safe Kids Buckle Up program's training manager. She said the new results are troubling.
Walker said the research supported their belief that parents are still using car seats incorrectly.
"Safe Kids USA is releasing a study of 79 thousand check list forms that we've completed in a one year period between '09 and '10 where we actually climbed in people's cars and helped them do a proper installation with their children in their car seats."
She said the technicians show parents how to install the car seat so it doesn't move more than one inch in any direction while the car is moving.
