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Article: Car seat installation can be tricky
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 22, 2003
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LISTEN up, parents with young children: It's time for an important
lesson in installing your child's car seat.
You've got a car seat for each child who needs one, you say?
Great. Here's the problem: Chances are it's not installed properly.
A study appearing in the journal Pediatrics last month concludes
that as many as 80 percent of car safety seats are either used
improperly or installed incorrectly. And it's not necessarily the
parents' fault. As anyone who's ever tried to install a seat knows,
the study found the instructions were often written in confusing
language or legal jargon.
When he leads parents through the installation process, Officer
Daniel Hesser of the California Highway ...