1、Traffic law experts here in China are launching a new campaign to try to make parents more aware of the need to have their children buckled in car seats in their vehicles.CRIs Shen Chengcheng has more.Motor vehicle crashes are the 2nd most common way for children under 14 to die accidentally here in
2、 China, behind drowning.Its estimated that an average of 50 children are killed in traffic accidents here in China every day.Research shows that child safety seats reduce a childs risk of fatal injury by around 45 percent.However, here in China, less than 0.1-percent of parents actually buckle their
3、 children into a safety-seat.Mrs. Li is the mother of a 3-year-old.Shes among the narrow 0.1 percent.Mrs. Li has 2 car seats for her son, both of which were manufactured outside China.She admits the entire process, from purchase to installation, wasnt easy.Its probably because the sales of the safet
4、y seats are very low, so the salespeople have rather limited knowledge of different seat types and installation tips. And my first time installing the seat, that was really hard, part of the reason is that the manual is all in English that I cant understand.Despite the extra trouble to try to make s
5、ense of the manual in English, Mrs. Li says shes sticking with imported seats.These foreign countries have legislated the use of child safety seats, so their seats have gone through numerous tests. However, here in China, child car seats have just been introduced for a few years, and it makes me que
6、stion the safety of those domestic brands. I think Id rather buy the expensive foreign brands.A child safety seat manufactured outside China can cost upward of 2-thousand yuan.Mr. Jiang has been living in the United States for 6 years, where his son was born.He says prices in the United States are m
7、uch more reasonable.The most common child car seats are sold at the mall for just over a hundred dollars. I think the price is affordable for Americans.Mr. Jiang says he believes there is a greater emphasis on safety, rather than comfort, in the US.For older kids, they do feel uncomfortable sitting
8、in the restrained seats. But I think parents should learn that the seat is really necessary first, so that they would to talk their kids into it.Ding Limin is a traffic law expert with the Chinese Peoples Public Security University.He says, at the moment, trying to force parents into buying a safety
9、 seat isnt the right approach.We need to educate the public so that they want to install the seat. If we legislate the use of the seat, people would come up with all kinds of ways to get around the law. On top of that, I think we should never let fake safety seats flood the market. We shouldnt make people think that its enough to just have a seat, because that way kids still cant be protected.Ding suggests one option to increase the use of child safety seats in China is to have them as an installation option when people buy a new vehicle.For CRI, Im Shen Chengcheng.
