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Feds Reworking Child Safety Seat Rules

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Parents everywhere are probably familiar with the Latch system of securing child safety seats into a car without the use of a seat belt. It seems even though the Latch system does its job, not enough people are using it properly, so the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is going to come up with new regulations by the end of the year to improve child safety in cars. 

We don’t know what the new rules will be because the government is still investigating the problem. Around 5% of children are completely unrestrained in cars, but they account for 30% of child deaths; 40% of children are secured by seat belts, not in child seats. 

NHTSA will look into mandating side-impact crash tests for child seats. This comes after recent news that Consumer Reports ran side-impact tests in an effort to compensate for the fact that NHTSA doesn’t perform such tests. Due to some mistaken methods, however, the tests were faulty.

[NHTSA to update child seat rules, The Detroit News]

Cars.com Guide To Child Safety Seats



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IIHS Names Ford Edge, Lincoln MKX Top Safety Picks

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety named the new Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX SUVs Top Safety Picks, the group’s highest award. To get the nod, both SUVs had to earn the top rating of Good for frontal, side- and rear-impact crash tests. The Edge is already seeing brisk sales and adding such a highly regarded safety rating will certainly help future sales.

The Ford Fusion sedan was revamped slightly so it could be retested after earning a poor grade in side-impact tests without airbags and only Acceptable with optional side airbags. Now, the Fusion comes with standard side airbags which have been upgraded and the Fusion is now rated Good in side impact tests as well as frontal tests. Only a marginal rating in rear impacts kept it from being a Top Safety Pick.

Source: IIHS



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Head-Protecting Side Airbags Cut Death Rates

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a new study that shows cars and SUVs equipped with side airbags that protect the head and body can dramatically reduce the risk of death. For SUVs, deaths were cut by more than half; for cars, it was a 37% drop. The IIHS performed a study in 2003 that saw similar results but didn’t have enough data until now to include SUVs. This study reinforces the auto industry’s voluntary mandate to equip all vehicles with head-protecting side airbags by 2009.

These tests highlighted side-impact crashes, not rollovers, another major concern of safety advocates. Side-impact crashes are extremely dangerous because passengers are left more vulnerable without the crush-zones built into the front and rear of cars.

There’s a federal ruling in the works that would make these types of systems mandatory, but this may be one of those times when the industry moves faster than the government. Crash results are so important to car sales that automakers have been known to equip models with additional airbags just one year getting after a poor score. 

[Full IIHS Report]



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