The new crash-test rules come after a reports by ProPublica and CBS News in 2020 found some booster seats received a passing grade during side-impact crash tests — despite the fact that the test dummies were violently tossed around during the tests.
After missing its own January 2022 deadline, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday announced its long-delayed side-impact crash-test standard for child car-seats.
The ProPublica/CBS News reports prompted a House Oversight Committee investigation that found booster seat-makers"endangered the lives of millions of American children and misled consumers about the safety of booster seats by failing to conduct appropriate side-impact testing.
The committee's report called on state attorneys general to launch consumer-protection investigations. In July 2021, the attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbiato federal regulators demanding they create a side-impact crash-test standard and come up with better labeling standards for children's car seats.
Child seats will be evaluated using a newly developed test dummy representing a 3-year-old child and an existing dummy that simulates a 12-month-old, according to the safety regulator.
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