Gasgoo.com (Shanghai June 1) - Child safety seat usage does not even exceed 0.1 percent, a report by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) unveiled, tv.people.com.cn reported today. With over 18,500 infants having been killed in automobile accidents every year, the figure is a cause for alarm.
At a university-held conference on child safety seats, Zhang Jinhuan, a researcher at Tsinghua University said that child deaths in automobile accidents is at least in part due to lack of child safety seat usage. According to Mr. Zhang, proper child safety seat usage could reduce infant deaths by as much as 71 percent.
In the US, UK and other Western countries, child seat usage is required by law, something which Mr. Zhang believes China should enforce as well.
Yan Fengmin, assistant head of AQSIQ's supervisory office, said that his department is preparing to institute a recall of unsafe child seats.
