[Rathji]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Car seats are orthodoxy, but that doesn't necessarily make them more effective than seatbelts. Just because people perceive their chidlren to be safer doesn't make them actually safer.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/07/...vs-seat-belts/

Now, that article only talks of " the death rates or incapacitating injuries for children in car seats versus children using adult seat belts", does not talk about minor injuries. Are these injuries not relevant to the discussion?

I was in an accident a couple month ago. Everyone who was in car seats had no injury, everyone who was not in car seats was injured.

I had a car of mine written off (I was not in it), rolled 6 times across the Trans Canada and landed in the meridian. Everyone who was in car seats was fine, everyone who was in seat belts sustained fairly major injuries.

I do realize this in ancodental, but a perfect example of situations where that 'study' would have found car seats to have worked just as well as seatbelts, since none of the people were killed or incapacitated.