Infant car seat crash danger

Important news for parents who still have a child in an infant car seat or are about to buy a new infant car seat…

Consumer Reports tested 12 infant car seats. Nine performed poorly.

Surprisingly, all of the infant seats tested had already passed federal tests.

But Consumer Reports has changed the ground rules: While the federal government requires a 30 mph frontal crash for car seats, Consumer Reports ran it at 35 mph and 38 mph for side-impact crashes, the same speeds used for new car tests.

Be sure to read this MSNBC article “In crashes, infant car seats ‘failed disastrously’” and get a copy of the Consumer Reports findings.

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1/18/2007 UPDATE: Consumer Reports now redacts it’s claim citing that they had erroneously tested the car seats at twice the speed that they had originally claimed.