Even a car seat may not be enough protection


Even a car seat may not be enough protectionThe tragic news of an infant death in a stalled car on the Galveston Causeway Sunday lends a sobering reminder that simply doing the right thing by buying and using protective car seats may not always be enough. Car seat safety is no guarantee of survival.

Child safety seats are far more common today, now that each state has passed child occupant protection laws. Yet as many as 1,800 children under age 14 die annually in vehicle accidents.

Even more disturbing is the fact that some of these children, like the child killed Sunday, were killed while sitting in a car seat.

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