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On “Have children's car seats not been proven to be more effective than seat belts alone for kids older than 24 months?”
…o make a decision about how to transport your child(ren) then I would encourage you to have a look at the data. Cars are really dangerous, and it seems there are things you can do to reduce the risk. Do not listen to me, I do not have children or any professional experience in road safety.
In trying to answer this as data question I started with link to this video that introduces most of the papers referenced below.
It is easy to find correlation between injury and death rates and child seat use. For example Elliott et al. 2006 found a relative risk for death of 0.72 (0.54-0.97 95% CI) associated with the use of a child restraint system in children of ages 2 to 6, and 0.79 (0.59-1.05) when excludin…