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Here is an interesting article published today from the Chicago Tribune website. I guess maybe it will be published tomorrow since it has 3/1/09 for the date, but on the website a day earlier.
Here is there listing of different infant seat test results:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-carseats-html,0,5094939.htmlpage
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-car_seatsmar01,0,2504501.story?page=1Car seat tests reveal 'flaws'
As transportation secretary orders review of safety standards, makers of baby restraints question crash results
By Patricia Callahan | Tribune Reporter
March 1, 2009
In a government crash-test video, the infant car seat flies off its base, smashing the baby dummy — still strapped into the carrier — upside down and face-first into the back of the driver's seat.
Think what could happen in a real crash.
This seat was one of 31 that either flew off their bases or exceeded injury limits in a series of frontal crashes conducted by federal researchers using 2008 model year vehicles, a Tribune investigation found. The test results were never publicized, and even some infant-seat makers were unaware of their existence.
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Here is there listing of different infant seat test results:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-carseats-html,0,5094939.htmlpage
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