BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Tougher safety rules are on the way for car seats, focusing on dangerous side-impact crashes. The goal: better crash protection for your little one . For years, child car seat manufacturers have made claims about side-impact protection, but there’s been no industry standard to back it up.

Soon, that will change with a new federal rule requiring new seats to be crash tested in a simulated side-impact collision.

Consumer Reports Auto Safety Expert, Emily A. Thomas, PhD says, “Previously, the car seat regulations were only looking at frontal impact protection. But now they’ve been updated to also focus on side impact protection, which is great because we know that there is a high risk of injury and fatality with side crashes.”

WHEN the new regulation will take e

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