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U.S. DOT/NHTSA - Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS); Child Restraint Systems; Tether Anchorages for Child Restraint Systems; Child Restraint Anchorage System
Document ID: NHTSA-1998-3390-0001
Document Type: Notice
Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM); Request for Comments - Proposes to require that motor vehicles and add-on child restraints be equipped with a means independent of vehicle safety belts for securing the child restraints to vehicle seats. The adoption of the proposal would avoid problems of incompatibility between child restraints and vehicle safety belts and increase the correct installation of child restraints. This proposal would reduce allowable head excursion, which would have the effect of requiring child restraints to be equipped with an upper tether strap, and would require vehicles to have two factory-installed, user-ready anchor points for attaching the tether. It would also require vehicles to have two rear vehicle seating positions equipped with a specialized lower anchorage system, and require child restraints to be equipped with means of attaching to that system.
The proposal for the lower anchorages is based on two of the systems discussed at an October 1996 NHTSA public workshop concerning alternative systems for providing dedicated means for attaching child restraints to vehicle seats. Almost all of the different systems evaluated and discussed at the workshop appeared comparable in terms of demonstrated safety and public acceptance. However, one system appeared to be less expensive and have the advantage of using hardware familiar to consumers. This system is the "uniform child restraint anchorages (UCRA) system," referred to as such by a consortium of manufacturing groups in a June 28, 1996 petition for rulemaking to the agency. The International Standards Organization (ISO) Working Group on child restraint systems recognized in a November 1996 meeting the need for this system to permit improvements in the short term.
Comments on this notice must be received by the agency no later than May 21, 1997.
Document Subtype:
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Received Date:
February 20 1997, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
U.S. DOT/NHTSA - Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS); Child Restraint Systems; Tether Anchorages for Child Restraint Systems; Child Restraint Anchorage System
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