Car safety seats should always be used, however, some recent events have brought up concerns associated with hand-me-down car safety seats due to the fact parents fail to obtain a safety manual with the product.

Parents with a car safety seat that does not come with a safety manual may not be aware of certain risks the car safety seat could pose to children if they fail to follow certain instructions associated with how the car safety seats are installed and how the child must be placed in the device.

Consumers are being alerted they must refrain from using hand-me-down unless they come with safety manuals.

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