{"id":2000,"date":"2014-02-12T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T20:47:49","slug":"safest-car-booster-seats-vary-based-on-age-weight-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/safest-car-booster-seats-vary-based-on-age-weight-height\/","title":{"rendered":"Safest Car Booster Seats Vary Based on Age, Weight & Height"},"content":{"rendered":"
A list of the safest car booster seats for children has been released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety<\/a> (IIHS). The IIHS evaluated 19 new booster seats and ranked the top performers that provided the best all-around protection.<\/p>\n Keep Kids in the Back For Safety<\/strong> All states have enacted laws requiring the use of some type of child passenger restraint system. Child passenger restraint requirements vary based on age, weight and height. There are three basic phases:<\/p>\n Rear-facing child restraint in the back seat<\/strong><\/p>\n Forward-facing child safety seats for toddlers<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Booster Seats for Older Children<\/strong><\/p>\n Many laws require all children to ride in the rear seat whenever possible, and most states permit children over a particular age, height or weight to use an adult safety belt.<\/p>\n First offense fines for not complying with a state’s child passenger safety laws vary from $10 to $500. Some states also use driver’s license points as an additional penalty for noncompliance.<\/p>\n The only states lacking booster seat laws are Florida and South Dakota.<\/strong><\/p>\n Need help installing the booster seat?\u00a0 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) posts a Child Car Seat Inspection Station Locator. Find a child car seat inspection station nearest you. Certified technicians will inspect your child car seat, in most cases, free of charge – and show you how to correctly install and use it. Are you looking for a new booster seat? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A list of the safest car booster seats for children has been released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The IIHS evaluated 19 new booster seats and ranked the top performers that provided the best all-around protection. Keep Kids in the Back For Safety The safest position for children is to ride in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[712],"tags":[223,271,532],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe safest position for children is to ride in the back seat with a proper age- and size- restraint, until they are big enough for adult safety belts to fit securely. That means starting out in a rear-facing restraint before changing to a forward-facing restraint and then a booster seat.<\/p>\n\n
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\nFor a complete chart of Child Passenger Safety Laws for every state visit http:\/\/www.ghsa.org\/html\/stateinfo\/laws\/childsafety_laws.html<\/a><\/p>\n