China's child seat usage is less than 1%

According to reports, Yesterday was Children's Day. I believe that many families will drive with children and go out to play. However, in the process of driving, do you notice the safety of your children? According to statistics, the use rate of children's safety seats in China's automobiles is less than 1%, and the average number of children in the country is 12, and more than 4,300 children die each year in road traffic accidents. There should be a close connection between the two. According to data from the World Health Organization, child safety seats can reduce infant mortality by 71% and infant mortality by 54% in car crashes.

Recently, the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial People’s Congress amended the “Regulations on Shandong Expressway Traffic Safety”. The new regulations stipulate that drivers must not arrange for minors under the age of 12 to ride in the co-pilot position; minors under 4 years old take the family by Cars should be equipped with and properly used child safety seats. Unfortunately, Shandong is only the second province that has made mandatory regulations on this through local regulations. Before Shandong, it was Shanghai that took similar measures.

The use of child seats is too low, although it is related to parents' safety awareness, but the lack of mandatory regulations is probably the main reason.

In the reporter’s investigation, parents who abandoned the use of child safety seats are accustomed to placing their children on the co-pilot, and there are adults who hold them and adults who wear adult safety belts. However, Professor Zhang Jinsuo, director of the Automotive Collision Laboratory at Tsinghua University, told reporters that these conditions will cause a fatal danger for the child. She used a simulation experiment to detail the reporter.

Zhang Jinchang: This is an experiment conducted in an American laboratory. When a collision occurs, then a child weighing more than 200 kilograms of a dozen or more kilograms of children needs more than 200 kilograms of force. If the children are sitting in the co-pilot position, we will put a watermelon and an airbag next to it. About 20 centimeters from this watermelon, that means when you are sitting in the co-pilot, once a collision happens, once the airbags Explosion, it broke out at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, causing a fatal injury to the head. If our children directly use the adult seat belt on the car, the seat belt is just stuck on the neck. Our experimental data shows that, in the event of a collision, the force of the neck can reach more than 500 kilograms.

Through this experiment, we can understand how important it is to use child seats. In fact, it is currently recognized that the most effective way to protect children is to use child safety seats. Once they know the importance, the next step is to buy them, but how to buy them? knowledge. At present, the price of child safety seats on the market is very different, and the quality of the children's safety seats is mixed, which may cause secondary injuries in accidents. In Shenyang, a large auto parts city in Shenyang, the price difference for child safety seats is seven times as much.

Reporter: How much is it? You introduce me to introduce the price.

Sellers: 590's, 980's, 1080's, 2790's, have been sitting until the age of twelve from nine months old.

Reporter: The price is so much worse.

Seller: The cheapest kind, this is 380.

In response, the AQSIQ stated that starting from September 1, 2014, the compulsory restraint system for motor vehicle child occupants, known as child safety seats, will be subject to compulsory product certification. From September 1, 2015, child safety seat products that do not have a compulsory product certification certificate and no mandatory product certification mark may not be manufactured, sold, imported, or used in other business activities. So you can look for it at the time of purchase. Compulsory product certification was introduced, but the relevant laws and regulations restricting the use of children's seats have not been seen. It is understood that in Europe and the United States, the laws and regulations for children's ride safety have long been clearly introduced.

U.S. law stipulates that children must use child safety seats when riding on vehicles. If a double airbag is installed in the front seat of a car, the child safety seat must be installed in the rear seat. The offender is liable to a fine of 100 to 300 U.S. Dollars; Sweden: Legislation in Sweden in 1982 Requires children under the age of 7 to be equipped with devices to protect children's safety when riding on vehicles. The use rate of such safety devices has risen to 95% so far. Canada: It is stipulated that children under the age of 18 kilograms must ride on vehicles. With child safety seats, if a double airbag is installed in the front seat of the car, children are not allowed to sit in the front seats and the offenders will be fined; Australia was formally enacted in 1985, requiring children to use child safety seats while riding. According to statistics, in the following five years, 71% of the children who suffered a car accident avoided fatal injuries by correctly using the child safety seat. New Zealand requires that children under the age of 5 must use appropriate child safety seats; children under 5 years old and 7 years old must use child restraint devices in the car when supplies are available; the United Kingdom enacted legislation in 2006 requiring children under 3 years of age to use Child safety seats, children between 3 and 12 years old or under 135 cm in height must use a booster pad.

In China, there is still no national legislative enforcement, and only local regulations such as Shanghai and Shandong have made mandatory regulations on this. At present, many Chinese parents are very weak in children's ride safety awareness and there is a certain degree of luck. To solve the problem of children's high mortality rate in traffic accidents, to popularize relevant knowledge and legislation, and to enforce protection for children, it is indeed necessary to synchronize . The Research Center for Road Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Public Security and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center form a project research team to jointly carry out research on the project "Feasibility Study on China's Compulsory Use of Child Hurdlers' Restraint System". The project team believes that the legislative conditions for the “compulsory use of the child occupant restraint system” have matured. Wang Jing, secretary general of the China Road Traffic Safety Association, said:

Wang Jing: It is necessary to regulate this behavior through laws and regulations and to strengthen this work through law enforcement. If there is no promotion and law enforcement to implement this work, the work is like a “belt” and is the same as the seat belt. This project has also been implemented for decades and gradually. It is impossible for us to publish this standard. After our laws and regulations have been established, it will be impossible for law enforcement to keep up with immediate results. It is a gradual process. Every parent needs to understand the role of child seats in protecting children's safety. And meaning.

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