{"id":13860,"date":"2022-07-05T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2022-07-05T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:19:27","slug":"side-impact-crash-test-to-become-standard-for-child-car-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/side-impact-crash-test-to-become-standard-for-child-car-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Side-impact crash test to become standard for child car seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/sites\/nhtsa.gov\/files\/2022-06\/Final-rule-FMVSS-213a-side-impact-child-restraint-systems-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new rule<\/a> that updates testing requirements for child safety seats to better protect children during side-impact crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The current standard requires child seats to meet performance criteria in a test simulating a 30-mph frontal impact.<\/p>\n<p>The new rule establishes a side impact test that replicates a 30-mph side collision, commonly known as a T-bone crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSide-impact collisions cause serious injuries and deaths in young children each year,\u201d said Dr Steven Cliff, NHTSA Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy establishing more comprehensive testing requirements, we are advancing child passenger safety and assuring parents that the safety seat they choose for their child must meet the highest safety standards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a new rule that updates testing requirements for child safety seats to better protect children during side-impact crashes. The current standard requires child seats to meet performance criteria in a test simulating a 30-mph frontal impact. The new rule establishes a side impact test that replicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":13876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}