Child Car Seats: Safety Measures and Impact Tests

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Introduction

The design of the seats within the car is normally done in a manner that addresses the carrying
capacity of the average body size of an adult. However, the safety standards and requirement
have resorted to grouping of Individuals in various categories.It is through this focus that child
car seats were invented for use and subsequent introduction of the infant car seats. Child car
seats have been in use for a long time now in New Zealand. These components were introduced
to ensure that lives are saved during minor and even major collisions.
Studies have indicated that any collision that happens with the car can potentially cause harm or
results into death. Studies have also indicated the presence of a burn that can be caused by these
same car seats meant for adults if used by children during the long drive. This happens during
hot weather. It is a common occurrence that passengers will always surge forward whenever the
driver brakes suddenly. The force that surges people forward is equivalent to almost thirty to
sixty times the weight of an individual(Macy, Cunningham, Resnicow & Freed 2014). This
implies that there have to be proper measures put in place to ensure that children are safe from
such effects.
In such events, the child car seats can effectively provide a solution in sequence from the start to
end of the journey. Despite the contribution of child car seats to the development of executive
car design in New Zealand; its use has been characterized by failures that result in very fatal
accidents. There are different accidents of the child car seats that affect the guests of the hotel
and other users. All these types of failure of child car seats can be attributed to the specific cause
once an investigation is carried out.
A case study of an accident involving a child car seat in New Zealand

A system is as good as its implementation. It is regrettable that some of the cases of the accidents
that have been diagnosed by the health care professionals in regard to child car seats have never
been reported to the concerned authorities. This has led to the slow rate of safety enhancement,
especially in New Zealand. The recent issue of Pediatrics & Child Health has involved
publications that highlight the potential hazards though rare associated with the child car seats.
There is a description by Mohair et al. about a burn to the infant that was caused by a child car
seat during the long drive when the weather was hot.
Also in the illustration is a case by Singhal et al which discusses the details that led to the death
of two children after being left to continue sleeping while on the child car seats. The potential
harm that has been comprehensively discussed in these articles must be properly balanced in
consideration of their advantages. It may be possible that the cases described by Moharir et al.
are just but a sample of very many cases that have never been documented in relation to the
burns.
Consumer Protection
Despite the fact that the child car seats have signals to warn on the generated heat under the
specific environmental conditions, there is still no proper documentation in the literature
research. In the cases that have been highlighted in the articles, there is no clear information as to
whether the car seat manual that has the provisions on the same. The investigations that have
been carried out by the concerned authorities revealed a lack of the necessary warnings to the
parents in regard to the protection of their infants from the safety seats that are overheated. It was
again discovered that the improper use of the child car seats is not uncommon(Van et al. 2016).