SeatSnug Wins Big at SEMA

Fort Washington PA, Lap Belt Cinch, Inc. (LBC), developer of the CG-Lock technology and makers of the performance driving CG-Lock device and the child safety product SeatSnug, today received the prestigious Editor’s Choice Award from Popular Mechanic’s Magazine in front of more than 100,000 attendees at this year’s SEMA Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. In receiving the award from Jim Meigs, Editor in Chief of Popular Mechanics, Charles Carter, CEO of LBC, stated “We are honored and most proud to receive this award which validates our CG-Lock technology and the contribution it has made to passenger safety. Through this award and the recognition Popular Mechanics brings to our products more lives will be saved.”

Earlier this week we alerted our community of parents about the 14,000 Booster Seat Recall from Evenflo Company. Well we are unfortunately having to follow-up that article with another recall from a major manufacturer of child strollers. Graco has recalled 2 million strollers and travel systems. It’s being reported that the defective strollers have led [...]

We’re not sure if this story has hit your local news outlets just yet, so we wanted to be sure to get all of our parents this very important information about a booster seat recall. Evenflo Co., maker of infant equipment and high quality baby care and juvenile products, announced that they are recalling close [...]

Are you expecting your first child? Perhaps you’re getting ready to move your son or daughter from a car seat to a booster seat? In either case you may be wondering how to properly restrain your children while driving in the car. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that approximately 75% of parents [...]

Not yet 4 years old, but already knowing that she wanted to be “cool”, little Toni didn’t want to sit in “baby” car seat while traveling in the car with her parents. The Perry’s, your everyday parents of young children, didn’t know the risks of allowing Toni to travel in the car with only an adult seat belt protecting her in the case of an accident. Unfortunately what appeared to be a minuscule decision in a seemingly endless list of decisions that parents make everyday would cost little Toni her life.

You may have read one of our recent blog articles on Snug-Up America; a new Child Safety initiative that was taken to new heights due to the partnership between Safety Mom Alison Rhodes and SeatSnug during Child Passenger Safety Week. What you may not have known is that Alison Rhodes has been a big supporter [...]

“No baby seat for me mom, I’m 9 years old!” Many kids ages 8 - 10 don’t want to sit in a booster seat as they think it’s something only for their little brothers and sisters. As parents, it’s our job to protect our children and as the video below suggests, riding without a booster seat for kids under 4′9 and 80 lbs can be dangerous if you are in an accident. As a society we can all help kids change their thinking about booster seats. We need to make booster seats “cool”.

Today, all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and our Territories have laws requiring the use of child safety seats and seat belts for children traveling in motor vehicles. These laws were enacted because of the tremendous safety benefits they provide. We know that child safety seats help save lives and reduce injuries. We also [...]

Accidents happen everyday of our lives. You hear about them on the news at night or on the radio during your drive into work. Most of the time the information comes in, and the information goes out, without much of a second thought. This happens everyday of our lives, until the day it happens to [...]

When we were younger, it was possible to have a regular four-door sedan and still fit up to three kids in the backseat of the car. Everyone got their own seat, complete with a seatbelt and plenty of room to stretch their legs. Now that we know kids up to the age of eight should [...]