Consumer ReportsCar seats have changed over the years, and today’s seats are no doubt safer.
In the case of load legs—a clever feature originally from Europe that gives car seats extra support by extending a “leg” from the car seat base to the car floor. It allows for crash forces to be absorbed more so by the car seat and load leg, and less crash energy to be transferred to your child occupant.crash testing shows the added safety benefit of a load leg as it limits both the car seat and the child's motion.
We found that when using infant-sized dummies, there was an average 46 percent reduction in head injury risk for seats with a load leg vs. those that don’t have a load leg.
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