If you think a properly installed car seat is guaranteed to protect your child, think again: a new study finds that children often unfasten the seat belts, to their own put themselves at risk in a car accident.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Lilia b. Reyes, a clinical fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine surveyed 378 parents and revealed that more than half that at least one of their children had managed to unfasten the seat belt in a seat at a given time.
Children who seconded their seat belt, 75% are aged 3 years or less; Some were as old as 78 months, or more than six years. Some detached the belt at the age of 12 months. Boys were more likely to be than girls (59% vs 42%).
More than 40 per cent of children who seconded their seat belt made, while the car was moving, increasing the risk of serious injury by 3.5 times. Answer the most common parents have reported was making the car more, reprimanding the child and rebuckling the seat of the car.
"We found that young children could acquire motor skills to unbuckle constraints before developing the cognitive capacity to understand the need for motor restrictions", Reyes said in a press release from Yale. "Perhaps locks with passive safety on seat belt can be developed, as a possible option for the action." It is our duty to ensure the security of valuable cargo. ?
Car accidents are the leading cause of death among children aged 4 to 8.
The study was to be presented Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver. Research presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary because there were not subjected to review by peers who are articles published in medical journals in General.
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