2. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Increased Risk: Research has shown that infants who sleep in car seats are at an increased risk of SIDS.

A family in the Washington D.C. area is recovering after their car was shot into multiple times while driving on Interstate 295, striking their son's car seat while he was asleep in it.

A baby asleep in his car seat narrowly avoided injury in Washington D.C. when someone shot at his father’s vehicle in a road rage incident. Leon Vessels said he was driving one of his two boys ...

Car seats, when installed at the proper angle with a harness, are safe for a baby to fall asleep, he said. But the same car seat isn’t recommended when taken off its base.