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 The cost of a booster seat to parents ranges from as low as $11 up to over $100. Less expensive seats are perfectly adequate as long as the booster can raise the child up so the belt goes across the hips and shoulder.
The total annual cost of motor vehicle occupant-related death and injury exceeds $25.5 billion for all children ages 15 and under. Public sources of funding - Medicare and Medicaid - cover about 29 percent of the costs of vehicle collisions. Society shoulders 69 percent of indirect crash costs in taxes, insurance premiums and medical costs. Every dollar spent on a child safety seat saves Americans $32.
- Source: National Safe Kids, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, and NHTSA.
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