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New city law requires car safety seats for kids, bars leaving preschoolers home alone
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AS of March, parents and other caregivers will have to install car safety seats for children younger than 4, and they cannot leave preschool children home alone, according to the new Juvenile Protection Law issued by Shanghai today.
Parents, guardians and relatives will have to install a safety seat before a young child is allowed to ride in a car. Children below 12 years old will have to sit in the back seat because the front seats are designed for adults, ac-cording to the new law, passed by the local legislative body.
“Accidents often happen to children sitting on the front seat or who are not in safety seats, so it is necessary to make it into a new law,” said Ding Wei, a senior official with the legislative body.
Many parents have not installed a child safety seat in their cars because of a lack of awareness and no law re-quiring it, which puts the safety of children at extreme risk.
Less than 1 percent of Chinese parents have installed child-safety seats in their cars, while some of the seats have quality problems, said Shi Xiaoguang, president of China Toy and Juvenile Products Association.
“Some low-cost cars do not have space to install the safety seats, and that can send children flying during acci-dents,” Shi said.
More than 18,500 children below 14 years of age die in traffic accidents in China every year. Of that, 75 percent die in accidents involving private cars.
The new law is expected to bring down the casualty rate by 70 percent, officials said.
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