I'm chatting with someone who is doing a piece on carseat safety and of course this statistic has come up, and she'd like a source. Fair enough. I know that real world stats verify this (my own, when I get stats from checks, what they used in class) within from about 92%-100% misuse depending on check and area and demographics. But where do we get the 96%-98% from? Is there a single study to link it to? Same as with the 8 out of 10 installed improperly. I know if I compiled my data from what I see I'd get about this, but quoting "Wendy Thomas' checks" isn't as impressive as the NHTSA or something.
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