CHILDREN AT GREATER RISK IN CARS

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Coinciding with this week´s crackdown on wearing seatbelts and child restraints in cars, the DGT traffic department have published some startling statistics about children in cars.

According to the traffic experts, wearing a seatbelt in the front of a car reduces the risk to those involved in an accident by between 40% and 60%, whereas travelling in the back and wearing a seatbelt reduces the risk by up to 75%. So far this year 79 of the 643 people killed on the roads were not wearing a seat belt, bearing in mind that a proportion of the 643 overall death count will also include road users not in cars, such as pedestrians and motorcyclists.

However, a child who is not properly restrained in a car is five times more likely to die in a crash than one who is correctly seated and belted in. That figure is then amplified when the DGT also state that 80% of all children travelling in cars are not properly and legally restrained.

The campaign on seatbelt wearing will be running all this week, with many local police forces joiing the Guardia Civil in carrying out checks of vehicle users.

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