Vikki Sloviter
Consumer Reports (CR) withdrew its February 2007 issue report that tested infant carseats and found most of them unsafe. After the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) questioned the actual speed at which the infant carseats were tested in the study, CR rescinded its report and will further test the carseats before reissuing the report. In the original report, CR claimed that the infant carseats were tested in side-impact collisions at 38 mph, but the NHTSA claims that tested impact was closer to 70 mph, not 38 mph as CR claimed. When the NHTSA tested the same model carseats at 38 mph, all the infant carseats remained in their bases and did not fail the side-impact collision tests as dramatically as CR reported.
Consumer Reports and the NHTSA want all consumers to know that they fully advocate the use of infant carseats and do not want the now-confusing results of the CR study to dissuade parents from using infant carseats.
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