The Department of Transportation is launching a new campaign to raise awareness of how to choose the right size safety seat and how to correctly use the seats. <\/p>\n
The lives of children are saved every year by child safety seats. There were almost 9,000 confirmed instances when a child\u2019s life was saved because he or she was properly secured in a seat made for their body size between 1975 and 2008. Those statistics come from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. <\/p>\n
Laws mandating that children ride only when secured in a safety seat have not proven to be enough. NHTSA studies have shown that as many as three out of every four children are not as secure as they should be in the car because their seats are not the right size or they are not being used correctly.<\/p>\n
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