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Do I really Need a Car Seat?
Child car seats are a relatively new phenomenon in India. Chances are that you’re thinking,
“When we never knew the need for a child car seat during our childhood why should we bother about it now?”
That’s a good question.
As a parent, safety for your baby is, no doubt, one of your primary concerns. Extensive testing indicates that the force of impact during an accident, is thirty to sixty times stronger when the passenger is unrestrained, compared to when using a child car seat or a seat belt (in case of adults). Since a baby has no way of exercising self restraint, it’s at a greater risk of being hurtled around the car or even worse, thrown out of the vehicle. Using a child car seat helps you overcome these risks and ensures that your child is safely restrained when travelling by car.
Did you know India has the dubious distinction of the record for the worst road safety in the world,
and that at least one death occurs on Indian roads every six minutes1? Of these, the National Crime Records Bureau
reports that nearly 20 children under the age of 14 die daily in the country2. Scary, isn’t it? But this is the unfortunate
truth a parent in India faces today. If you travel by car, using a car seat for your child is the best thing you can do to
ensure that your child doesn’t become a part of the unfortunate statistics.
As a parent, safety for your baby is, no doubt, one of your primary concerns. Extensive testing indicates that the force of impact during an accident, is thirty to sixty times stronger when the passenger is unrestrained, compared to when using a child car seat or a seat belt (in case of adults). Since a baby has no way of exercising self restraint, it’s at a greater risk of being hurtled around the car or even worse, thrown out of the vehicle. Using a child car seat helps you overcome these risks and ensures that your child is safely restrained when travelling by car.

