CONSUMER NEWS

Group Flags 3 Child Safety Seats: The models failed to live up to their names in test car crashes, Yonkers, N.Y.-based Consumers Union warned. Two of the child safety seat manufacturers disputed the results; the third had already recalled its model. Consumers Union tested 25 models and rated 22 of them as safe, but in the September issue of Consumer Reports it will give “not acceptable” ratings to the Century 590 infant seat when used with its detachable base, the Kolcraft Traveler 700 convertible seat when facing forward and the Evenflo On My Way 206 infant seat when used without its base. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that about 700 children die and at least 60,000 are injured in car crashes each year.