Child Restraint Guide Launched. RACV this week launched the 2009 Safer Child Restraints Guide to provide parents with the most up-to-date advice on choosing the best car restraints for their children. The tests revealed that while all restraints tested met Australian standards, three performed better than others in crash tests. The top three performers were the Babylove Snap’n Go, Hipod Senator and the Infa Vario Kid. RACV Chief Engineer, Vehicles, Michael Case, said the research was carried out as part of the Child Restraint Evaluation Program which tested and rated 34 child restraints for different ages. “Children need the greatest protection when travelling in vehicles – they are our most important passengers and need to be safely restrained,” Mr Case said. “We need to ensure children use restraints which are the right size and which are correctly installed so they are protected from harm.” “This new guide makes it simple for parents to choose the correct restraint based on the size and weight of their child and these restraints are rigorously tested as the CREP program tests child restraints to tougher standards and performance requirements than the Australian Standard.” Between 2002 and 2007, 69 children (infants to seven years old) were killed and 1444 seriously injured on Victoria’s roads. Mr Case said correctly fitted child restraints can significantly reduce a child’s risk of serious injury as a passenger in a crash. “I urge parents and child carers to use the ratings in this guide to help pick the safest and easiest child restraint to use,” Mr Case said. CREP involves two different sets of tests: ease-of-use and crash tests measuring safety performance. Add Comment |
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