The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses specially designed dummies to simulate crash testing with children and adults of all different ages, heights, and weights. But one it didn’t adopt into its family of child dummies until now is its 10-year-old weighing more than 65 pounds.
Largely due to the rise in childhood obesity, the new dummy is designed to be an in-betweener, as six to eight-years-old is the cutoff in most states for having to use child seats. However, most seats weren’t designed to be used for children over 65 pounds, creating a situation where the child seats could actually further endanger heavier children in a crash instead of help them.
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