Travel frequency greatly improves child safety seats

In recent years, the number of domestic private cars has continued to rise, and the frequency of children’s travel has also greatly increased. Compared with the enthusiasm of the family to increase the car, children's safety is a neglected cold spot.

Recently, the reporter interviewed many private car owners in the city who were parents. 90% of the car owners did not install child safety seats; 40% of the parents had allowed children to sit alone in dangerous passenger seats; more than half Parents believe that children can be protected when they ride their baby in their arms or sit on their legs.

This result shows that parents have misunderstandings about children's car safety awareness, and most children have safety hazards when they ride.

Parents' Misunderstanding of "Children's Car Safety"

Ms. Chen returned from Europe several years ago. When she returned to China, she was most surprised that almost no vehicles with child safety seats were seen on the street. “In Europe, if children under the age of 14 ride without a child safety seat, the traffic police will immediately stop you and will not allow you to go on the road.”

Many parents who have just become car owners do not understand child safety seats, and it is unclear whether children should sit in the back seat. In the process of driving, the adults embrace the children sitting in the assistant driver's seat, standing in front of the rear seat passageway, or standing in front of the driver's seat, and the child safety seats in the vehicle are left vacant for years. Scenes such as those in the country can be seen almost daily in life. .

Some parents like to hold the "earth pearl" in their arms and protect them with their arms. In reality, this kind of protection for adults is often overkill when it comes to emergency braking. Some parents put their children's safety on their seat belts, but this idea is also not desirable. Because the safety belt on the car is mostly designed for adults of ordinary height, the height adjustment is limited. When a car encounters an unexpected situation, the human body may rush forward with great inertia. At this time, the unfitness of the seat belt may cause the child's chest ribs to fracture, suffocate and even neck fractures. The best protection measures will become a deadly weapon. In addition, putting children in the driver's seat is a misunderstanding of many parents. The impact of the airbags carried by the driver's seat in the event of a car accident may cause the child to suffocate and fracture.

Child safety seats hard to find

A few days ago, reporters visited some of the city’s auto supplies stores and found that the market for child safety seats was bleak.

Steering wheel cover, visual DVD navigation, rear wing, mat seat cover ... 4S shop, a variety of automotive supplies dazzling, but the child safety seat is hard to find. “A few customers will not buy a child seat in a year. Even if the child safety seat is given as a gift to the owner during the promotion, the owners do not want to convert it into other gifts. It is best to use cash discounts,” said a 4S shop in a city car. The head of the installation department told the reporter. A businessman engaged in the sale of automotive supplies said that they entered some child seats for trial sale, but few people are interested.

Currently, in the entire automotive product market in Shijiazhuang, the customer retention amount for purchasing child safety car devices only accounts for 5% of the market. It seems that the low purchasing enthusiasm of consumers is one of the main reasons for the downturn in the child safety seat market.

According to industry insiders, some European and American governments that started early in the auto industry and matured the market have introduced traffic regulations for different groups. Their principled regulations on children's travel safety have effectively restrained car manufacturers and car users. For example, young children are not recommended to sit in the front row (if they are sitting in the front row, they must use increased safety seats, so that safety in the event of an accident occurs. The airbag will not harm the child's head. And children must use safety seats etc. And our country’s laws and regulations in this area have been blank.

ISOFIX standard child seat interface: Ensure child seats are used properly

ISOFIX is an abbreviation of International Organization for Standardization (Child Safety Seat) Fixture. It is a new standard for placing child seats in automobiles. ISOFIX-equipped models have a uniform standard ISOFIX connector so that the ISOFIX standard child seat can be easily fixed to the car's ISOFIX interface. Most children's seats are currently placed on seats in the car and secured with straps (sometimes only using belts). However, cars of different models have different seats, seat belts and fixing methods. The different shapes of the car seats, the shorter seat belt lengths and the different anchorage point positions may cause some child seats to be placed more forward or further back. All these factors make it difficult to make child seats suitable for all models. The formulation of ISOFIX is to solve all these problems. As long as your car comes with an ISOFIX child seat interface, then any ISOFIX child seat you purchase will fit your car and you simply plug it into the child seat interface.

ISOFIX is currently not enforced by regulations in China, but some joint-venture or self-owned brand models are already equipped with ISOFIX standard child seat interfaces. If you have children in your home, it is still necessary to have an ISOFIX child seat interface when you choose your car.

Tip one:

Different age configurations: Proper use of child safety seats

Correct use of child car seats can effectively reduce the chance of injury by about 70%. At the same time, the child safety seat should also be installed in the rear seat of the car. Before the parents purchase the child safety seat, it is necessary to specify the applicable age range of the product.

For children weighing less than 18 kilograms, the forward child seat should be used. Similarly, the seat belt should be placed in a lower slot, should be at the same height as the shoulder or slightly lower, and keep the seat belt attached Children. For slightly older children, it is best to use a seat belt to position the booster seat and fasten the seat belt to the front chest over the shoulders.

Tip two:

Children's Car Safety: Five Don'ts

Note 1: Do not hold the child in your leg. When a collision occurs at a speed of 50 km, a 30 kg child weighs as much as a ton of elephant.

Note 2: Do not give your child an adult seat belt. In the event of a collision, the adult seat belt will just trap the child's neck and become a dangerous “survival” belt.

Note 3: Do not allow children to sit alone in the back row. Children sitting in the back row may accidentally open the doors and windows.

Note 4: Do not lock the child in the car. The enclosed space in the car may be a potential killer.

Note 5: Do not let children play around in the car. For small children, they are easily overlooked by the driver and are most likely to cause accidents.

The national standard has drawn up the mandatory use of child safety seats

Earlier this year, Zhang Jinchang, a member of the Committee of Standardization for Vehicle Occupant Restraint Systems and Director of the Automotive Collision Laboratory at Tsinghua University, disclosed that the "Restriction System for Motor Vehicle Children Crew" (hereinafter referred to as the "Restriction System") is expected to be formally introduced in June this year. According to industry sources, once this standard is introduced, child safety seats will also be forcibly used in China.

"If the standard is introduced in June this year, taking into account the prevailing situation in the domestic automotive industry, there will be a two-year universal buffer period," Zhang Jin exchanged with the director and said, "As a national mandatory standard, the "restraint system" will be mandatory The use of child safety seats. The standards for Chinese child safety seats will be established in accordance with the European ECE-R44 standard."

In fact, the standard of car child safety seats in developed countries is already very mature and worthy of reference from China. According to statistics, there are currently more than 40 countries in the world that have introduced relevant laws and regulations, mainly including the following standards for child safety seats: European ECE-R44/03 standards, US MPVSS213, Canadian CMVSS, and Japanese JIS. Among them, European standards for ECE are used and adopted by many countries because of their comprehensiveness and strictness. These standards include production standards, installation and use standards, not only for child seat manufacturers, but also for automotive manufacturers.

Child safety seat purchase channels

In addition to auto supplies stores and car dealerships, children's products in large shopping malls also sell child safety seats that are secured with seat belts. For example, Li Yingfang, Fueryou and good children, prices ranging from 1000-4000 yuan. According to the salesperson of the counter, the parents who come to shop now have a much higher awareness of the safety of children's travel, so the inquiries of the child safety seats in the store are very high.

In addition, online shopping is also one of the major purchase channels for child safety seats. It is understood that some high credit shop varieties are complete, the price is about 20% cheaper than the market price. A Ningbo Taobao shop owner who owns a physical store introduced that they have an average monthly sales of 10-30 child safety seats and a few hundred dollars for the most popular seats. When choosing a child seat, buyers generally consider the price first.

Industry insiders suggest that when selecting a seat, the three factors of children, child safety seat and car must be taken into consideration.

1. To choose safety seats with safety certification through safety tests. A seat that has not undergone a safety test is very dangerous. A poor quality not only does not protect it, but it increases the damage to the child.

2. Use safety seats of different ages for children of different ages: infants born to one week should use a special car baby seat, because the infant seat is developed specifically for the physiology and growth characteristics of infants and young children. . Children over one year old can choose the right safety seat according to their body shape.

3. Choose a safety seat with high side protection. The safety of the safety seat is mainly reflected in its side protection, which is used to withstand the impact from the side.

4. To consider from the comfort of the seat.

5. To consider from the car's model. When buying, it is best to drive your child to buy a child safety seat so that you can choose the safety seat that best suits your child. At the same time, you can also try on the car to see if it matches the car.