Child Passenger Safety Links)
Parent Chat Boards:
ParentsPlace Car Seat Board: Great Site - Ask questions here!
Baby Bargains Car Seat Board: Another good place to ask questions. Fantastic search engine to sort through archived posts.
Toddler Bargain's Booster seat board: A discussion focused on booster seats, though not limited to them.
Car-Seat.org: Carseat, Vehicle & Child Passenger Safety Forums
Car Safety Tips: Baby Center hosts another discussion on car seat safety and other car safety issues.
Organizations with great Car Seat Safety Information:
Safety Belt, USA: wonderful site with lots of basic as well as technical info.
Safe Kids Worldwide: All kinds of safety information about kids can be found here.
Partners for Child Passenger Safety: Offers video clips for each car seat stage, as well as results from a huge study looking at what works in real crashes.
Minnesota Public Safety: On-line carseat booklet. Check up events and classes for Minnesota.
NHTSA Child Passenger Safety: Tons of car seat information, as well as vehicle safety info.
Transport Canada's Child Safety: Includes Canadian recommendations and recall lists.
American Academy of Pediatrics Car Seat Guide: Latest AAP car safety recommendations.
Car-Safety.Org: Lots of information on latch and safer cars.
Seat Check: National listing of car seat check up events. Focuses on Fit for a Kid inspection stations.
Product Recalls: ConsumerWatch.com provides up-to-date information on product recalls and consumer safety.
Major Car Seat Vendors
Baby Trend: Distributes the LatchLoc, an infant carseat.
Britax Child Safety: A full line of high end car seats.
Columbia: Special needs car seats up to 120 pounds.
Combi: This international company has started making carseats for the U.S.
Cosco: Dorel now includes Cosco, Safety 1st, Nascar and Eddie Bauer.
Evenflo: Infant seats through boosters.
EZ On: Makes the EZ On Vest, 86Y, and Modified EZ On Vest for children with special needs, or cars without lap/shoulder belts.
Graco: Infant seats through boosters.
OrbitBaby: New carseat system with infant seat and stroller.
Recaro Child Seats: Recaro now offers several high-end boosters and a harnessed seat.
Safe Traffic Systems: Maker of Ride Safer Travel Vest
SafeGuardSeat: Terrific new seat that uses the harness to 65 pounds.
SnugSeat: Special needs car seats.
TriplePlay Products: Maker of the Safeline Sit'n'stroll.
Car Seat User Reviews:
Elite Car Seats: Website with helpful reviews for a wide variety of products.
"Unofficial" Web sites with car seat information and pictures
Jennifer's Child Passenger Safety Pages: Lots of pages on various topics including air travel, shield boosters, and 5 point seats.
Angie's Car Seat Pages: Includes page on rear facing tethering for Britax convertibles, with pictures.
Don's Car Seat Page: Great info, much of it specific to the Bay Area.
Car Seat Errors: See real pictures of errors that parents made before they knew better.
Emily's Car Seat Page: Some articles on shield boosters and overhead bar seats, as well as good links.
School Bus Safety Information
NHTSA's Proper Use of Child Safety Systems in Buses: Brochure on how to use child seats in buses.
Guideline for the Safe Transport of Children in Buses: Report from 1999 about the best way to transport children on buses.
School Transportation News: Fairly neutral site reporting on bus issues.
Keep Kids Healthy: Kids health information, including growth charts (sometimes helpful when choosing carseats).
Miscellaneous Car Seat Stuff
Extended Rear Facing: Why kids should stay rear facing as long as possible.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Lots of good information on vehicle safety, including crash test results.
Adaptivemall: Special needs seats. See also Britax for another special needs seat.