Why can't children in down jackets sit in car seats?

Children under the age of 12 and less than 140 cm tall are advised to use a child car seat when travelling in a car.

Recently, as the weather turns cold, parents are afraid of their children getting cold, and often fix children wearing down jackets and other coats directly on the car seat.

Need to remind yes, the use of child car seats in winter the most important thing to pay attention to is how to fix the children, wearing down jackets will greatly affect the child car seat to the child's fixation, when the collision occurs, children are easy to fly out of the seat.

Reason 1:

Children wearing down jackets sit in the child car seat, the vehicle in the driving process due to bumps will cause the air in the down jacket to be squeezed continuously, down jacket is getting thinner and thinner, so that the gap between the five-point or three-point seat belt in the child car seat and the child is increased, resulting in the inability to firmly fix the child.

Reason 2:

The surface of the down jacket is mostly made of smooth fabric, resulting in the lack of sufficient friction in the seat belt to hold the child in place.

Correct way to open the car seat with a child:

The correct approach is to first take off the child's down jacket, and then fix the child wearing a close-fitting single suit on the child car seat, check whether it is fixed according to the correct method, and finally put the down jacket on its body, which is both safe and warm.

In addition to wearing a down jacket, these operations are not advisable with child car seats:

When it is cold, some parents are worried that their children are cold in the child car seat, and they put blankets or padding on the back or under the child. This is also dangerous practice! These items are compressed in the event of a vehicle collision, causing the seat belt to become loose and making the child car seat less protective. Similarly, it is advisable to cover a blanket or clothing on a child already secured in a child car seat.

When using child car seats, only objects that have been approved by the child safety seat manufacturer or that are produced by the child car seat manufacturing company for specific models of child car seats are acceptable, for example, some seat manufacturers allow the use of rolled towels or blankets at the child's crotch belt to improve comfort.

No children's toy pendants can be placed on the child car seat. In the event of a vehicle collision, these pendants pose an unpredictable danger to children and can only be used with the approval and certification of the child car seat manufacturer.

(Source: Shanghai Cdtec)

Source: Orient Net