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Dispute over car-seat advice.(Up front: news/trends/advice)
Several months ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued new advice: Parents can be confident that a child car seat will continue to do its job after a minor crash. In the past, NHTSA advised replacing seats after any crash.
Some advocacy groups and seat makers have serious reservations about the new advice and the way NHTSA produced it. The safety experts at Consumers Union, publisher of CONSUMER REPORTS, believe the new advice has merit but can create uncertainty.
NHTSA says it based its advice on tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. NHTSA said that the aim was partly to ease the financial burden of replacing a seat.
NHTSA also defined "minor crash":
* The seat has no visible cracks or deformation caused by the crash.
* The crashed vehicle can be driven.
* No one in the car was injured.
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