Insurance Institute Rates Child Booster Seats

Insurance Institute Rates Child Booster Seats

WANADA dealer members wishing to help their customers with selecting the proper child booster seats might wish to post the latest findings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on which models are best. The safety group looked at 60 booster seats and highlighted 15 as Best Bets or Good Bets.

These are seats that fit the best. Booster seats are meant to raise children up so that a vehicles seat belts, which are designed to fit adults, will fit children and better protect them in a crash. Good booster seats position the lap belt flat across a childs upper thigh, not the abdomen, and position the shoulder belt at the center of the shoulder, not rubbing against the neck or slipping off the side of the shoulder.

Here are the Best Bets and Good Bets:

The Best Bets

Combi Dakota backless/clip

Recaro Young Sport

Recaro Vivo

Maxi-Cosi Rodi XR

Evenflo Big Kid Amp backless/clip

Eddie Bauer Auto Booster

Costo Juvenile Pronto

Britax Frontier

Clek Oobr

The Good Bets

Combi Kobuk backless/clip

Maxi-Cosi Rodi

Evenflo Symphony 65

Britax Parkway SG

Graco TurboBooster SafeSeat Wander

Graco TurboBooster SafeSeat Sachi

Booster seats are recommended for children who have outgrown car seats ” generally when they are around 4 years old and 40 pounds. Children should ride in booster seats until they are 4-feet-9 (around the age of 8 or 9), which is when a cars seat belts are likely to fit them properly.

The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia has done studies that have shown that children in booster seats or child car seats are less likely to be injured or die in crashes. A recent study showed that children 4 to 8 years of age who ride in booster seats are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash than children using seat belts alone.