June 30, 2008

The CG-Lock is not just for child car booster seats...adults see major benefits too! Read what a police officer in England says:

"I am a serving Police officer on a specialist unit and after suffering a back injury whilst on duty around three years ago, I have had trouble sitting in a car for any length of time.

"I have had an operation on my back to rectify the damage but this seemed to do little for me.

"Cut back to late last year when I saw the CG Lock at the Top Gear MPH Show, I got one of these and gave it a try. This may sound strange but I was pottering around the house about three moths after getting the CG Lock and I thought to myself that I hadn't had any sciatica, those horrible shooting pains down your lower back and legs, for some time.

"The only thing that had changed a that time was that I was using the CG Lock every time I used a car. I used it in my own car to and from work and transferred it to my work car when I got there.

"I found it greatly improved my posture and kept me snug in my seat, which has benefitted me greatly. I am even more convinced the CG Lock is the sole cause of this, as I didn't use it for around 4 weeks earlier this year and my sciatica came back.

"I now never go out without it and the back pains have gone again.

"Would I recommend this item to anyone with back pain? Well, everyone's back is different but if you suffer from back pain or sciatica, the price of one of these is nothing compared to the better quality of life it has given me - I'm 27 and now feel like I did when I was 23/24 before I was injured. So I'd say, go on, give it a go.

"It really has made the difference to me and I have recommended it to family and friends and also brought it to the attention of my HR department at work. Thank you CG Lock team."

JJ, Policeman, S England. (Kept anonymous due to Police regulations)



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June 26, 2008

Caution: A booster seat can injure you

They're designed to enhance children's safety, but unsecured, unoccupied seats can become dangerous projectiles in a high-speed crash.

From RAQUEL RUTLEDGE (rrutledge@journalsentinel.com; originally posted: Oct. 27, 2007)

George Clark clicked his seat-belt buckle and relaxed in the back seat of his friend's car as they headed home from a Boy Scout leader training weekend in Kiel. It was a warm June afternoon, and Clark, 52, chatted with the other two dads sitting up front. Clark paid no attention to the empty booster seat beside him.

Then a car darted across the highway in front of them and they hit it, going close to 50 mph. Clark doesn't remember what happened during the impact. But severe injuries to the left side of his head and face indicate the unsecured booster seat became airborne and bashed into him, pulverizing his cheekbone, shattering his jaw and causing other injuries.

"It's something people don't think about," said Lynn Clark, George's wife. "This should go on Good Morning America to tell the world (booster seats) can become projectiles and seriously hurt people."

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does not keep data on how often people are injured by unsecured booster seats or even on how often people are hurt by any loose cargo. But researchers have found that in a collision, especially a frontal one, unrestrained cargo flies forward with a force exponentially greater than its weight. At 55 mph, a 20-pound parcel exceeds 1,000 pounds of force. A can of peas or the family pet can cause serious injury or even death.

Reference: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=679607; Milwaukee Journal sentinal

To learn why the CG-Lock gets such good reviews, watch the eye-opening video at: www.CG-Lock.com (click the ‘PLAY’ button) then click on the booster seat button to learn moreEnhance your child’s safety and comfort, and your own, with the CG-Lock

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June 19, 2008

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among children ages 3 to 14, according to NHTSA. In 2005, 1,946 children ages 14 and under died and an estimated 234,000 were injured in crashes.

Safe Kids Buckle Up, the child passenger safety program of Safe Kids USA sponsored by General Motors and Chevrolet, has reached a milestone no other program can claim: one million child safety seats checked for proper installation.

"A Safe Kids child seat inspection provides hands-on training for parents and caregivers," said Mitch Stoller, president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide. "At about 30 minutes per inspection, the milestone we are celebrating today represents more than 500,000 volunteer hours -- or 57 years of one person working around the clock. Our thousands of volunteers are the backbone of Safe Kids Buckle Up and they work tirelessly to help make sure the children who come to a checkup event are safer when they leave than when they arrived."

"Keeping all children safer in vehicles is one of our top priorities," said Nicole R. Nason, administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "Programs like Safe Kids Buckle Up have helped to change the culture of car seat safety in the United States and have been essential in protecting our most precious passengers."

Significant progress has been made since 1997 when the program checked its first car seat. Statistics from NHTSA show a 25 percent drop in vehicle crash fatalities for children under the age of 5 from 1997 to 2006 (the latest year with available data).

More good news has been seen in restraint use. Car seats have saved the lives of an estimated 3,800 children ages 0 to 4 from 1997 to 2006. Of the children in fatal crashes where restraint use was known, 46 percent were unrestrained in 1997. This number decreased to 25 percent in 2006.

"Safe Kids USA and General Motors have been leaders in child occupant protection," said Mark V. Rosenker, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. "As we have said before, the Safe Kids Buckle Up program has given families across the country the peace of mind that comes with knowing how to properly secure their children in a vehicle. Checking a million seats through the Safe Kids Buckle Up program has likely resulted in hundreds of lives being saved because of the proper use of car seats and booster seats."

(Reference: http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/06/12/089815.html)



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June 16, 2006

If a CG-Lock works for adults (as described below), think how secure your children will be!

Driver: On April 29, 2008, myself and a friend were in a rollover accident in my 2003 MINI Cooper S in the mountains of North Carolina. I was wearing a 4-point harness (as I do numerous HPDE events) and my passenger was in the stock seatbelt with a CG-Lock. We came around a fairly gentle curve at about 45 mph and the car lost traction in the right rear and put us into a skid. Because of my track experience I knew enough to keep power applied to the front wheels and we were actually starting to recover from the skid when the right rear wheel hit a pile of dirt, spun us in a violent 360 in the other direction and drove us up the wall and over onto the roof. I was completely uninjured and as I was hanging upside down in my harness, my first concern was for Rich's safety. I looked over at him to see if he was alright and he was as firmly locked in his seat as I was in my harness! To my great relief, he was uninjured as well. My car, however, was later written off by the insurance company. Thank you, CG-Lock for protecting my friend and sparing me the pain and guilt I would of felt had he been injured!" Don Christopher, Windsor, Ontario


Passenger: I will admit, I was not a big supporter of your product. It was my opinion that some little gizmo...do-dad...thingy that you stick on your seat-belt wasn't going to do anything positive in the event of a serious crash. (This opinion, wrongfully, was based on nothing more than testosterone). In the spring of 2008. I was involved, as a passenger, in a rollover accident of a MINI Cooper. Thankfully, my friend who owned the car didn't feel the same way I did about your product, the CG-Lock.

We were going to make a night-time pass through the Dragon. Don was going to drive. When I got in his car he was buckling up his full harness. I grabbed the stock seat-belt when Don said, that belt has a CG-Lock...do you know how to use it? Puzzled, I said no, and was thinking you have a harness, I get some little snap thing. :( Don showed me how to use it (simple) and made sure I was strapped in nice and tight.

Not five minutes later, Don and I were upside down assessing each other when Don said, are you OK !! To my surprise, I was. I was hanging there as tight in my seat, with the CG-Lock, as Don was in his harness. Thank you for your CG-Lock and thank you Don for strapping me in with it. Rich McNutt, Livonia, MI


Passerby: My car wasn’t involved, but since the whole story and/or pictures are on MMMC and YouTube, it was a fellow MMMC member “Big Daddy” and his crash/rollover at the Dragon. His passenger was actually hanging by his CG-Lock and was very grateful Big Daddy had one on his passenger seat belt. Your CG-Lock performed perfectly, so thank you from the MMMC family. MB


Photographer: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Big Daddy (Don) took a spill on Rte 28 in Fontana, NC. There was a nice “volcano” pothole in the outside curve of the road that he hit, and lost control. He WAS NOT going fast, just couldn’t regain control in the curve and flipped. There are two amazing things…NEITHER Don nor Rich were hurt (Thanks to a harness and a CG-Lock) and the car was drivable!

I too use a CG lock in my Cabrio and know just how good they are. As a nurse my greatest concern was for their safety as well and I was, and still am, very happy that I didn't even have to break out a snoopy band-aid for either of them.

MINIs are strong cars, and anything to show the public JUST how strong they are is good press in my book.

I am glad that your company does this. It is very important to show what an inexpensive piece of equipment can do to save someone's life. I am upgrading for myself to a harness because, well.. I have a cabrio, and feel that I need just that much more cinch down if I am in an accident, but on the regular seatbelt, which I use for everyday driving, I have a CG Lock. :) We also have one in the passenger seat of my husband's MINI as well, so we are very familiar with their great uses.

Stacey Kim AKA MINInurse (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mininurse/sets/72157604959642079/)
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June 11, 2008

Lap Belt Cinch, Inc. is proud to announce
that the innovative CG-Lock® has received

The National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval

In granting the Seal of Approval, The National Parenting Center [1] said:

“The CG Lock is a unique car safety device for parents with kids sitting in booster seats. The unique lock stabilizes your child’s car booster seat by preventing some of the most typical issues that plague boosters such as tipping, rocking and bouncing. Our testers told us that they felt an increase in their personal feeling of safety, while noticing an improvement in their children's comfort. When you fasten your seat belt, you want it to fit snugly and impart a feeling that it will do its job in case of an accident. CG-Lock did just that. Recommended Age: 3 to 8”.

The CG-Lock has been used for years to hold adult drivers and passengers stable and more comfortable under challenging driving (sports cars, off road, police, military, and paraplegics). Now, that same stability and comfort is available for children in booster seats that use the vehicle’s seatbelts.
The CG-Lock clips onto a standard automotive style seatbelt in seconds, permitting the lap belt to be gently tightened (all slack removed). The shoulder belt is unchanged. The result is enhanced safety, stability, and comfort.

To learn more, please watch the brief video comparison at www.CG-Lock.com and visit the booster seat web site at www.cg-lock.com/booster.

[1] Information about The National Parenting Center is provided on the following page and on their web site at www.TNPC.com


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