Attention KC Parents: Have You Heard the News on Safety Seats?

Attention Kansas City parents!  If your child is under the age of two, we strongly recommend that you re-evaluate your child’s car seat because recent changes have been put into play.

 

In April of 2009, the United States published and publicized statistics that supported the benefit of infants and toddlers riding in a safety seat that is designed to face backwards so that the child is facing the seat of the car.  Those statistics were the first ever provided by the government and they demonstrated that if a child under the age of two was placed in one of these rear-facing safety seats, then he or she decreased the possibility of death and injury by as much as 75%, thus making the child who rides in a rear-facing safety seat five times safer than the child who rides in a forward-facing safety seat. 

 

If you’re asking yourself: Facing backwards while riding in a car doesn’t sound very safe?  You are not alone.  To answer your question, the previously mentioned finding was part of a series of studies, which also found that rear-facing seats lend more support to a young child’s bones from his or her pelvis all the way up to the crown of the head. 

 

In addition to this extra support, researcher Dr. Marilyn Bull found that there is a decreased chance that your child will sustain injuries in the lower limbs (i.e.-the legs) as opposed to children who use forward-facing seats. 

 

What is more, most safety seats that are boxed and sold in stores now contain warning labels.  These labels are intentional, and show parents the importance of purchasing rear-facing safety seats over forward-facing ones. 

 

If you believe that a child you love has been injured and is entitled to justice and compensation, we urge you to give our Kansas City Child Injury and Accident Lawyers a call today.  We are committed to seeing child injury victims get back on their feet and get the justice and compensation they deserve, and with over fifteen years of experience the attorneys of Roswold Law Group are well prepared to take on your case.