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Safety - USA - Car seats safer for kids than seat belts
WASHINGTON,DC,USA -The Detroit News/Associated Press, by Ken Thomas -June 06, 2006: -- Young children stand a better chance of avoiding death in a serious car crash if they're secured in a car seat rather than buckled in a seat belt, according to a study published in The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine... Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that children between the ages of 2 and 6 were 28 percent less likely to be killed in a crash if they were sitting in the back in either a car seat or booster seat instead of in a seat belt. Even when considering "gross misuse" -- such as cases where the child seat was not attached to the vehicle's seat or the child wasn't wearing the seat's harness -- the risk of death was reduced by 21 percent...
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