Question about NHTSA CR Usage Chart. Link included!

lovinwaves · Aug 16, 2006

Hi everyone, I have a question about a chart I came across on NHTSA's website. Why would they only recommend Forward Facing under the "Preschoolers & Toddler" Section. They don't even mention anything about rear-facing? Here is the link, sorry it is so long:

http://www.nhtsa.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.9f8c7d6359e0e9bbbf30811060008a0c/;jsessionid=EjNx5T4ceXofVkHwM65cOZ7FcVVTenOhGKf3NEJ9BzXzKVC11zDs!-935120138?javax.portlet.tpst=4670b93a0b088a006bc1d6b760008a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_4670b93a0b088a006bc1d6b760008a0c_viewID=detail_view&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=token&itemID=061fab6383f62010VgnVCM1000002c567798RCRD&overrideViewName=Article

Thanks, Melissa

joolsplus3 · Aug 17, 2006

lovinwaves said:
Hi everyone, I have a question about a chart I came across on NHTSA's website. Why would they only recommend Forward Facing under the "Preschoolers & Toddler" Section. They don't even mention anything about rear-facing? Here is the link, sorry it is so long:

Try this: http://tinyurl.com/mtsso (you copy the whole link, then open www.tinyurl.com and paste it into the box and voila, clickable link).

And why do they say that? No real reason... I guess the risk of neck injury drops from severe to moderate in FF kids at a year, so that's what's sticking for now. It takes a long time and a lot of research to get this sort of thing changed... government bureaucracy really isn't lightning fast when it comes to keeping up with the best, newest recommendations. Maybe in a couple years things'll move ahead to say, "Keep children rearfacing to the limits of the convertible seat" or "RF till 2 or 30 pounds" or something better, but we can't even get parents on board with 'one AND 20 pounds' yet, so it's a sloooooooow change.

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