DETROIT (WKZO-AM) — AAA Michigan is using National Child Passenger Safety Week to alert parents about the dangers of incorrectly installing child safety seats in cars and trucks.
“They can’t do it themselves, and its another one of our responsibilities, just like we protect them in all the other aspects of their life, that we do so in a motor vehicle,” AAA spokesman Gary Bubar said on Monday.
Bubar also said seats generally aren’t installed right.
“Three out of four child safety seats have something wrong with them,” he said. “Either their in the wrong position in the vehicle, they’re not tight enough, the child isn’t in correctly, or it’s the wrong seat for the child.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a properly-installed seat can reduce the possibility of a child dying in a car crash by 70 percent.
Bubar said the auto club is trying to put together a plan to have a certified child safety technician in each of its 31 branches statewide.
A searchable list of seat inspection sites can be found here.
– Anthony Pollreisz
