On May 13, 4:35=A0pm, don.lo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Positioning child safety seats in the
> center of the back seat could cut infants' and toddlers' injury risks
> by nearly half, a new study suggests.
>
> study 43 % 28 % child car seats. bolster center rear. n >> 7...
> teletext. TVNZ
>
> you would have thought sample size n =3D 1/7 =3D .142857.
> actually it was hundreds or more..
> but search internet to confirm. math
>
> In a study of car crash data from 16 U.S. states, researchers found
> that children younger than 3 years old were 43 percent less likely to
> be injured when their seat was fastened in the center of the back seat
> rather than one of the side seats.
>
> Experts already recommend that parents position car seats in the
> center of the rear seat, and the current findings bolster that advice,
> according to Michael J. Kallan and colleagues at the University of
> Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
>
> Unfortunately, only 28 percent of children in their study were sitting
> in that position at the time of the car accident, the researchers
> re****t in the journal Pediatrics.
>
> There are obstacles to placing a car seat in the center position,
> Kallan's team acknowledges.
>
> >>>..........
>
> cheers don. mcdonald. =A013-5-08.
I always put my kid in the middle when he was an infant. further from
the sides in that type of crash.
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