Effects of child restraint misuse on dynamic performance.

Conclusion: The study provides strong evidence for prioritizing tight restraint installation and proper tether use for FF restraints. In particular, use of the tether helped offset the adverse effects of loose installation or loose harness. Because the results show that performance of a RF child restraint system (CRS) installation is less affected by user error, they also provide support for extended RF restraint use. In addition, packaging convertible child restraints with the LATCH belt routed through the RF belt path could help prevent the most consequential RF CRS misuse.
PMID: 31670975 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - October 30, 2019 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Manary MA, Flannagan CAC, Reed MP, Orton NR, Klinich KD Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research