Safety Tips
Car Seat Safety
Infants
What You Need to Know
Use a rear-facing car seat to at least
Does your child exceed the car seat’s rear-facing height and weight limits?
Is your child’s head within one inch of the car seat top?
From birth to at least age 1 and 20 lbs.
Use a rear-facing car seat correctly in a back seat every time your baby rides in a car.
Use the right car seat for your baby’s weight and height. Infants are weighed and measured at every doctor visit, so be sure to keep track.
Use the car’s safety belt or LATCH system to lock the car seat into the car. Your car seat should not move more than one inch side to side or front to back. Grab the car seat at the safety beltpath or LATCH path to test it.
Put harnesses through the slots so they are even with or below the infant’s shoulders. Be sure the harness is tight, so you can’t pinch extra webbing at the shoulder.
Adjust the chest clip to armpit level.
Use your baby’s car seat rear-facing and reclined no more than 45 degrees, so the baby’s head stays in contact with the seat and the baby’s airway stays open. Read the car seat instructions.
Keep your baby rear-facing until at least age 1 and 20 pounds. Use a rear-facing convertible seat longer if the seat has higher weight and height limits.
Find where the frontal airbags are in your vehicle by checking the owner’s manual. Never put a rear-facing car seat in front of an active airbag.
Be sure all occupants wear safety belts correctly every time. Children learn from adult role models.
Safe Kids Scotts Bluff County
1405 O Street, Gering, NE 69341 Phone: 308-436-8040
Inspection Stations
age 1 and 20 lbs. Use your rear-facing car seat longer if the seat has higher weight and height limits. Take the next step to a forward-facing car seat when your child is at least one year old and you answer “yes” to either question:
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LATCH
(Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children)
Almost all cars and car seats made since September 2002 must have LATCH.
LATCH locks a car seat into the vehicle without using the safety belts. Older cars and car seats may not have LATCH.
Read your owner’s manual and car seat instructions to see if you can use LATCH.
Both LATCH and safety belts provide the same protection. Use one or other, not both.
Safe Kids Scotts Bluff County is a member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under.
3350 10th Street
Gering Nebraska
308-635-3089
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1818 Avenue A
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
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