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Target Expands Recall of Child Booster Seats
About 375,000 Circo Child Booster seats have been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission and Target. 43,000 additional booster seats were recalled in August 2009. The booster seat’s restraining belt buckle can open and a child can fall from the chair.
21 Safest Child Booster Seats
Car booster seats are getting safer. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave top marks to 21 of 72 booster seats it evaluated for properly restraining children. Last year, only nine of the 60 seats it reviewed received top marks.
Child Seat Belt Laws for a Pickup Truck
Pickup trucks are making resurgence in the United States, with many women preferring the truck to the traditional station wagon or minivans as their vehicle of choice. While the utility of a truck is without question, it does raise safety concerns for how to transport children safely. In most states, the laws require children to…
Massive Car Seat Recall: What Parents Need To Know
Last month Graco issued one of the largest car seat recalls in history due to a harness buckle issue, and now popular baby product manufacturer Evenflo is recalling 1.3 million convertible car seats and booster seats for a similar problem.According to company’s website, the harness crotch buckle “may become resistant to unlatching over time.” So far, they haven’t received any reports of injury and the seats do meet all federal crash …
Graco Recalls 3.7 Million Child Car Seats
In one of the largest recalls of its kind, the baby product company Graco has recalled more than 3.7 million child car seats and is contesting a government request to recall nearly 1.8 million more, according to CNN.What’s the danger? An issue with the harness buckle that can be difficult to unlatch or get stuck entirely. This can make it difficult or impossible to remove the child quickly in an emergency …