Child Safety Seats
By Jon P. Groth • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Newest Post, Personal Injury LawI’m heading out of town soon. I really dislike taking a ton of luggage. With 2 kids it’s pretty hard NOT to take a ton of luggage. Well, we thought maybe we could avoid taking the kids car seats and just rent them from the rental car company. Well, after researching the issue I can tell you that is NOT going to happen.
You just can’t assume anything is safe these days:
Consumeraffairs.com wrote about a family’s recent troubles with their rental child safety seats.
“Some seats were obviously missing parts. Some were obviously very old,” she told ConsumerAffairs.com. “We installed two of the better looking seats thinking that they were okay only to find that they were not working.”
So, what can a family on the move do? Consumeraffairs.com recommends:
• Inspect each seat thoroughly for any evidence of cracking, twisting, worn harness webbing or broken buckles.
• Verify that seatbelts are threaded through the proper channels.
• Once you have latched the buckles, pull hard to make sure that they do not detach.
• Find the “birth date” label on the side or back of the seat, and don’t use a seat more than 5 years old.
• Get a copy of the car seat manual
Jon Groth is a Wisconsin Personal Injury Attorney handling cases throughout Wisconsin and most recently in Milwaukee, West Bend, New Berlin and Wauwatosa.
Jon P. Groth is an attorney that practices Personal Injury Law and General Civil Litigation. Jon owns Groth Law Firm, S.C.
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