Parents warned over child car seats

Road Safety Scotland have launched a new campaign that aims to teach parents in Paisley how to correctly fit a child car seat.

In partnership with leading child seat specialist, Good Egg Safety, the ma j o r summertime campaign was created to warn parents about potentially fatal common errors made in fitting child car seats.

Images of incorrectly fitted child seats will be released via social media and backed up by nine short videos produced in partnership with the Arnold Clark Group, to graphically demonstrate why the child seats, or the children seated within them, are unsafe.

Good Egg has already issued an urgent safety alert on social media for parents in relation to incorrect routing of seatbelts through child seats, which is found in one in 10 of their child seat checks across Scotland and the rest of the UK .

Michael McDonnell, director of Road Safety Scotland, said: “Many parents would be horrified to learn their child car seats are not fitted properly and, therefore, not providing the protection their children need.

“This campaign seeks to highlight that, not only by raising awareness of the issue and providing advice and guidance, but it also has a very practical element in that people can check the website, find the nearest car seat clinic and get the child-seat- car combination checked by an expert.

“It only takes a few minutes yet could save a child’s life.”

Check www. goodeggsafety.com and the Good Egg Safety Facebook page for the full schedule of events and links to the new videos.