Young Kids May Be Able to Unbuckle Car Seats Survey of Parents
Finds Some Kids May Be Unbuckling While Car Is in Motion May 2,
2011 -- Children as young as 1 year old can unbuckle themselves
from car safety seats, a new survey of parents finds. "We found
that children can unbuckle from their child car safety seats by
their fourth birthday, and there is an alarming 43% who do so
when the car is in motion," says researcher Lilia Reyes, MD, a
clinical fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at the Yale
School of Medicine in New Haven. "It was reported as early as 12
months." The findings are being presented at the Pediatric
Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver. Child Car Seats:
How Secure? While working in the pediatric emergency room at
Yale, Reyes encountered two different mothers who had minor car
accidents. They told her it happened when they turned their
heads around after discovering their kids had unbuckled
themselves. Trying to determine how frequently it happened, she
and her colleagues from Yale