What are the misunderstandings when purchasing child safety seats? The importance of child safety seats

How important are child safety seats? Parents who have never experienced a traffic accident while holding their children in a car may not have thought that a small safety seat can actually save a child's life. Look at the animated picture below and you will know how important child safety seats are.

Misunderstandings about choosing and purchasing safety seats

1. Buy a child safety seat that is too wide for your child’s age range

An online sales survey shows that child safety seats for children aged about 9 months to 12 years have the highest sales. Many parents think that the longer they are used, the more worth buying. In fact, this is not the case. The editor tells you that child safety seats also have an expiration date. Generally speaking, the service life of a child safety seat is 5 to 6 years. After 6 years, the tempered plastic, which is the main material of the child safety seat, will also age and corrode, and screws and other accessories will also become loose, making the safety seat no longer have safety protection performance, but instead become a killer of children. Therefore, after a certain number of years of use, the safety seat must be replaced with a new one.

2. Child safety seats secured with seat belts are not safe

Perhaps, many parents think that only safety seats with child safety seat anchor systems are the safest, such as Germany's ISOFIX and the United States' LATCH. They believe that only direct connection with car seats can provide more security. The editor tells you that, oh, it is actually a tip from an expert in child safety seats. In fact, the reason why safety seats installed with ISOFIX are safer is that the installation of the ISOFIX anchor system is very convenient and not prone to installation errors, while the installation of seat belts is more troublesome. According to a survey, more than 50% of parents will make installation errors when using seat belts. Installation errors will lead to a decrease in safety factors and potential safety hazards. In general, the safety performance of correctly installing the seat belt in the car is similar to that of installing with ISOFIX or LATCH. Of course, some experts also have doubts in this regard, but many foreign child safety seat brands and models that have passed ECER44/04 and German ADAC certification are fixed with car seat belts.

Children over 3.4 years old should use a safety seat with ISOFIX interface

Parents, do you know that for babies over 4 years old who weigh more than 18KG, the five-point safety belt that comes with the child safety seat is generally not suitable. Most safety seats will use the car's seat belt to fix the body and the safety seat at three points. At this time, the safety protection performance of the seat belt can play its role. Therefore, it is not necessary to use the ISOFIX anchor system to fix the child safety seat at this stage. Therefore, for babies over 4 years old, you can directly buy a safety seat booster pad to meet the height requirements of the safety belt. Note that parents must ensure that after the car seat belt is buckled for the baby, the seat belt must be below the neck and placed in the middle of the baby's shoulders. Therefore, there is no need to demand that babies over 4 years old use ISOFIX fixed child safety seats.

Misconceptions about children riding in cars

Many families with cars often ignore the safety of children riding in cars. Many parents adopt the wrong way to ride children in cars, which causes hidden dangers for children. The following are common misunderstandings about children riding in cars:

1. Let your child sit in the passenger seat

I believe that many parents have this behavior, letting their children sit next to them so that they can take care of them at any time. In fact, the front passenger seat is the most inappropriate position for children to sit. First, your attention while driving may be affected by the child's behavior, distracting you and causing accidents; second, the child's head is not fully developed yet. If a collision occurs, the car's airbag will open at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour. The instantaneous impact force can smash a watermelon into pieces, which far exceeds the child's head's ability to withstand.

2. Carrying a child on your back

Many parents think that since children cannot sit in the front passenger seat, I will drive slowly, so it should be safe for the mother to hold the child in the back seat? In fact, it is not. According to the data analysis given by the world's authoritative automobile collision agency: when a car collides at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, a child weighing 10KG will instantly generate an impact force of about 300KG. If you are a weightlifter, can you try to hold such a heavy weight? I believe that no one can be confident that they can hold a child at this time! On the contrary, if the adult does not wear a seat belt during the collision, the consequences are quite serious. The impact force generated by the adult is like an elephant pressing on the baby. The child becomes the airbag of the adult.

3. Let your child use an adult seat belt

Children love to imitate. They want to fasten their seat belts when they see adults doing so. However, the seat belts provided in cars are designed for adults. Children are not tall enough, so if they use adult seat belts, the seat belts will tightly wrap around the child's neck during a collision. At this time, the seat belt is like a steel knife on the child's neck, and the child is more likely to suffocate.

The correct way for children to ride in a car:

In fact, children have special child safety seats. Using car child safety seats can protect our children to the greatest extent. In European and American countries, without safety seats, hospitals do not allow parents to pick up newborns from the hospital.

The Importance of Child Safety Seats

Whether it is a holiday or a weekend, more and more families are traveling with their children, but very few parents equip their cars with child safety seats. Statistics show that the use rate of child safety seats in my country is less than 30%, and more than 18,500 children under the age of 14 die in traffic accidents every year. When will child safety seats become "life-saving seats"?

The professional name of a child safety seat is "child occupant restraint system", which is designed for children of different weights or ages to effectively improve the safety of children in a car. Some parents think that it is safer to hold their children on their laps. In fact, when you hold your child in the car, the child becomes your airbag!! The following 3 pictures will make it clear at a glance!

When a car hits a rigid wall at a speed of 30 to 50 kilometers per hour, it generates a force 30 to 50 times its own. A child weighing 10 kilograms will generate a force of 300 to 500 kilograms. It is difficult for an adult to hold a 300 to 500 kilogram object. When a collision occurs, the front airbags will open, and the child in the adult's arms will have the first chance to contact the airbag. When the airbag hits the child's head at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, it will cause great harm to the child.

In summary, if a vehicle is equipped with a child safety seat when a traffic accident occurs, the possibility of a child suffering fatal injury will be greatly reduced; the possibility of fatal injury for infants under 1 year old is reduced by 70%, and the possibility of fatal injury for children aged 1 to 6 years old is reduced by 54%-80%.

Here, the editor of No. 5.com calls on car owners to buy a child safety seat as soon as possible if they have children at home, unless the child is from Mr. Wang next door!