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According to Britax up to 75 percent of car seats are installed incorrectly, a problem they seek to eliminate with the Advocate ClickTight Convertible Car Seat's installation system.

In fact, 46 percent of car seats are incorrectly secured by way of lower anchor installation.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that nearly 60 percent of all car seats aren't used correctly, and many of those issues stem from car seat straps being too lose or not adjusted properly.

Since more than 80 percent of car seats are installed incorrectly by parents — and since Memorial Day also marks the beginning of the summer travel season — now is a good time to double - check that specific latching mechanism and how your car seat is installed.

Typically up to 75 percent of car seats are installed incorrectly, but Britax's revolutionary ClickTight Installation System is the safest and easiest technology on the market.

Almost 60 percent of car seat harnesses are too loose.

Britax Americas sets and exceeds safety standards in the U.S and Canada, and engineers, tests and assembles more than 90 percent of its car seats in the United States.

Unfortunately, 97 percent of car seats are not installed correctly.

They found that 48 percent of car seat deaths, and 75 percent of swing deaths, were due to positional asphyxia.

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I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

Most have seats for four to seven people even though 70 percent of the time those cars have just one or two people in them.

There is a concerning fact that almost 80 percent of child seats are installed incorrectly, and that increases the risk for child to be injured in a car accident.

BabyCenter's research found that 59 percent of parents either have or plan to get an all - in - one car seat, which holds infants and toddlers safely and converts to a booster seat for older children.

The ARB is located on the infant car seat base and minimizes the risk of injury by reducing rebound rotation by up to 30 percent in a crash.

While car seats first became mandatory in the late 1970's to late 1980's in North America, even as late as the late 1980's only 80 percent of parents were using them for children.

October 23, 2009 — A study released today in Pediatrics by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers updated evidence that children ages 4 to 8 who are restrained in the rear seat of a car in a belt - positioning booster seat are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children using a seat belt alone.

Correctly used child safety seats can reduce the risk of death by as much as 71 percent among infants and 54 percent among children aged one to four in passenger cars.

Best of all, children 4 to 8 years old seated in a booster seat in the back seat of the car are 45 percent less likely to be injured in a crash than children using only a seat belt.

A 2009 study conducted as part of Partners for Child Passenger Safety found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.

One recent study found that a whopping 95 percent of new parents made critical installation mistakes with their rear - facing car seats, but that those who had consulted car seat technicians were 13 times more likely to get it right.

About Britax Child Safety, Inc.: Britax Americas manufactures a variety of award - winning strollers, accessories, and a birth - to - big kid premium line of intuitively designed car seats, of which more than 90 percent are assembled in the United States.

According to new data, 73 % of car seats are not used correctly; however, when used properly, child safety seats can reduce the risk of death by as much as 71 percent.

The sad fact is that, in eighty percent of situations, the parent uses the car seat incorrectly and unknowingly puts their child in danger.

I'm really wondering what percent of people use their car seats correctly every time.

In a 2009 study, researchers at Harvard's MassGeneral Hospital for Children as well as other institutions analyzed the blood oxygen levels of newborns when they were placed in cribs versus car seats and found that nearly one - quarter of the time that the babies were in car seats, their oxygen saturation levels (the ratio of oxygen - saturated hemoglobin to total hemoglobin in their blood) dropped below 95 percent, the cutoff for what is considered normal.

Assemblyman Smardz noted that studies have indicated that over 70 percent of child car seats are not properly installed.

High - speed motor vehicle accidents cause 80 percent of these injuries, Askin says, often when the child's body is securely strapped into their car seat and their head is flung forward.

People of normal weight are 67 percent more likely to buckle their car seat belts than are obese people.

About 17 percent of children 7 years old and younger were in car safety seats before new laws expanded age requirements.

Eighty percent of cushions used in car seats, portable cribs and other baby furnishings contain chemical flame retardants that can accumulate in babies» bodies, according to a new study to be published Wednesday.

Just 1 in 10, or 11 percent of inspections, covered booster seat - age children ages 4 - 7 while half were for rear - facing car seats.

While some of that misuse is pretty minor, about 35 percent of kids are actually getting no protection at all from their car seats at all because the child restraint system built into car seats isn't being taken advantage of at all.

In 2006, more than 50 percent of passengers killed in car crashes were not wearing seat belts; 31 percent of all drivers killed also did nt buckle up.

The seats have been specifically designed to keep pressure of occupants» spines for improve comfort, and Infiniti claims that the car's sound deadening makes it 10 percent quieter than rivals at 75 mph.

Research has found that lap / shoulder seat belts, when used, reduce the risk of fatal injury to front - seat passenger car occupants by 45 percent and the risk of moderate - to - critical injury by 50 percent.

Now, with the smaller Macan SUV, a company once known exclusively for sports cars may see four - or five - seaters account for a boggling 75 percent of its soaring international sales.

Mercedes - Benz buyers will pay more in the 1999 model year, but the company says additional standard equipment amounts to more than the price hike.According to Mercedes - Benz of North America Inc., prices of 1999 vehicles are $ 159, or 1.09 percent, less than comparably equipped cars and sport - utilities at the end of the 1998 model year.The lowest - priced model, the C230 sedan, is up $ 750 but has added a supercharged engine, traction control, leather seating inserts and a higher - grade radio.

GM estimates that fewer than 1 percent of all affected cars need new seat tracks, and no crashes or injuries have been related to the problem.

A 2011 national study by Safe Kids Worldwide of car seat check - up events reported that only 28 percent of the 15,521 forward - facing restraints were tethered.

For the outboard rear seat positions, using lap / shoulder belts reduced the risk of a fatality by 54 percent for car occupants and by 75 percent for occupants of minivans, pickups and SUVs.

Using a lap / shoulder belt reduces the chances of dying in a crash by 58 percent for people seated in the center rear seat of cars and 75 percent for people buckled up in minivans, pickups and SUVs, a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report indicates.

The estimates update a 1999 NHTSA report that found a 44 percent reduction in the risk of fatal injury for back - seat outboard occupants in cars and a 73 percent reduction in fatal injury risk for back - seat outboard occupants of vans and SUVs.

Yet these advancements in driver - assistance technology took nothing away from improvements in crash - protection: 96 percent offered standard two or more seating positions in the car compatible with new i - Size child restraints and 94 percent of new cars now offer rear seat load limiters and belt tensioners as standard.

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Statistics show that bucking up in the front seat of a passenger car can reduce your risk of fatal injury by 45 percent and moderate to critical injury by 50 percent.

These safety devices have been proven to be 45 percent effective in preventing death among front - seat passenger car occupants in the event of an accident.

Did you know that seat belts reduce the risk of serious injury and / or death in a car accident by 50 percent?

Seat belts save lives — according to the Centers for Disease Control, seat belts help cut the rate of deaths in car accidents by 50 percSeat belts save lives — according to the Centers for Disease Control, seat belts help cut the rate of deaths in car accidents by 50 percseat belts help cut the rate of deaths in car accidents by 50 percent.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), car crashes are the leading cause of death for people age 4 and every age 11 through 27 in the U.S. With 45 to 60 percent effectiveness, seat belts are the single most effective means of reducing the risk of death in a crash and have saved more than 250,000 lives since 1975 in the U.S. alone.