On Your Side: New child car seat safety regulations

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -If you take care of a kid in a car seat, you’ll want to know about the new safety rules.

For years, child car seat manufacturers have made claims about side-impact protection, but there was no industry standard to support them.

Now there’s a new federal rule requiring new seats to be crash tested in a simulated side-impact collision. New car seats must pass a 30-mph side-impact test and adjust weight limits for infant and forward-facing seats…

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