U.S. Will Unveil Universal System for Child Car Seats
The Clinton administration plans to unveil a universal system next month for installing child safety seats, a step designed to ensure that more children are properly secured.
Under the plan, every seat would be required to fit in every car the same way--as early as next year in some models--thus eliminating the mishmash of 100 varieties of child seats and myriad installation systems in 300 different passenger vehicles now on the market.
The plan, which government and industry sources said would be announced Dec. 14 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would have broad implications for the safety of infants and small children who often are at risk of death or serious injury in passenger vehicles because they are improperly secured.
About 80% of the children strapped into safety seats are at risk because the seats are improperly connected, officials said.
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