{"id":9272,"date":"2019-11-20T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:25:13","slug":"parents-warned-over-unsafe-child-car-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/parents-warned-over-unsafe-child-car-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents warned over \u2018unsafe\u2019 child car seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safety experts have urged parents and caregivers to avoid using or purchasing car seats for their children that do not meet federal safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Transportation\u2019s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has made the appeal after being alerted by a concerned pediatrician about safety concerns regarding child seats being sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Tell-tale signs that a car seat does not meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) and may pose significant risk to an infant include seats without lower anchor attachments, without proper labeling, lacking a chest clip, or only secured by a seat belt crossed over the seat and not correctly installed, the NHTSA said.<\/p>\n<p>More information, including a list of child car and booster seats that are certified as meeting FMVSS, is available on the NHTSA website on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/equipment\/car-seats-and-booster-seats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Car Seats and Booster Seats<\/a> section.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/car-seats-and-booster-seats\/clasificaciones-de-facilidad-de-uso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ease-of-use car seat ratings<\/a> are also available online.<\/p>\n<p>The public is encouraged to report suspected safety issues and concerns about car seats or other child restraints to NHTSA\u2019s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236 or by filing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov\/ivoq\/Complaint.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">non-vehicle complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety experts have urged parents and caregivers to avoid using or purchasing car seats for their children that do not meet federal safety standards. The US Department of Transportation\u2019s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has made the appeal after being alerted by a concerned pediatrician about safety concerns regarding child seats being sold in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-safety-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}