Tag: car seat

  • Child Passenger Safety

    Child Safety

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    Child safety seats help protect your child from injury and death.

    Children aged 12 and under should sit properly restrained in the back seat.

    When you install a child safety or booster seat, use the instructions that come with it and the vehicle owner’s manual.

    A rear-facing infant child safety seat should never be placed in front of a passenger seat air bag.

    If you must transport a child in the front seat of a vehicle with an active air bag or near any passenger seat with a side air bag, install an on-off switch and press “off.”

    Have a certified child passenger safety technician check to see that the safety seat has been installed the right way. Find a technician or an inspection center near you fromnhtsa.gov/equipment/car-seats-and-booster-seats.

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