Need booster links

[Melizerd]

http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2007/04/09/Opinion/BoosterSeat.Bull-2829282.shtml

Well I read this and just about fainted. I don't even know where to start except for the fact that we know that children need at least a booster for longer then the author thinks so.

So I think that we need some links for information on why boosters are safer for kids and a few of our opinions posted for the author.

[CandCfam]

:thumbsdown: to the author of that article.

4 years and 40 lbs is the bare minimum anyone should consider moving a child into a high-back booster. No back boosters are best kept for the child who has outgrown a high-back booster.
A child smaller than 4' 9" is not going to fit a seatbelt properly, and will be in danger in an accident.

Here is a really good, informative video from GMTv:
HERE (http://gmtv.feedroom.com/?fr_story=c5f16b370d76aa04ef80311e1ff97bd5801754b0&rf=bm)


mentions weight and maturity (http://www.cpsafety.com/articles/BoosterShop.aspx)

2005 Data: Car crashes #2 cause of death for ages 1-3, and #1 cause of death ages 4-34 (http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2005/809831.pdf)

High Back Booster seat crash test (http://www.oeamtc.at/netautor/html_seiten/kisitest_2002/videos/test2002/frontcrash/maxicosirodi.mpg)

5 point harness crash test (http://www.oeamtc.at/netautor/html_seiten/kisitest_2002/videos/test2002/frontcrash/maxicosipriori.mpg)

The CHOP on child safety seats (http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=77971)

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on booster seats (http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=77974#when_should)

Why We Use Booster Seats (on pg 2, point #3 it gives age and weight guidelines of ‘about’ age 4 & 40 lbs) (http://www.safe.state.mn.us/BoosterSeat%20(AQ%20improve%20res).pdf)

Here are the urls to some crash tests of booster seats:
Click on crash test #4, it is with a child dummy in a backless booster (http://www.oeamtc.at/videobox/index.php?domain=oeamtc&videobox=Kindersitze_bis_36_kg_oder_14_Jahre&movie_kind=swf)

Another backless booster crash test, side impact. (http://www.oeamtc.at/netautor/html_seiten/kisitest/videos/tests_2001/seitencrash/Baby_Sunny_touring_P3_vorne.mpg)

[skaterbabscpst]

You can use my booster article if you think it will help, but from the tone of the article that is unlikely at best.

[MomToEliEm]

He is probably glad that the Texas bill never passed the House so it never became law.

Texas is one of the worst when it comes to child seat belt laws. A child only has to be 36" or 5 years old (whichever comes first) before they are allowed to ride in a regular seatbelt. Most 2 year olds are 36 inches.

I really doubt anything you send him will change his mind. I would do it anyway, but it doesn't sound like he is someone to change his way of thinking.

[papooses]

Yeah, I left a comment for the sake of anyone else who might learn something, but I doubt Ms. R. wil care one bit :thumbsdown:

[joolsplus3]

Gag, a college freshman... whatever... moron... I think we are doing a good job refuting her idiocy.