New analysis agitated out by LV=, the UK car insurer, has appear that one in six drivers are breaking adolescent car bench laws and putting their adolescent passengers' assurance at risk.
By law, drivers have to ensure that all accouchement adolescent than 12 and beneath than 135cm (4'5") use a adolescent or booster seat. Without this, the accident of accident or abrasion in the accident of an abstract rises by 71% and 69% respectively.
The new laws were alien in 2006 and the analysis by car insurer LV= has begin abounding drivers are apprenticed of their acknowledged assignment of care. One in 5 (21%) of those who abort to accede with the law say they are blind the guidelines even exist.
Worryingly, one in ten of those who are acquainted of the guidelines say they just apathy them and don't bother to fit assurance seats, admitting the actuality that the laws were brought in to ensure that all accouchement are adequate on the roads, to abate fatalities and injuries.
Not alone is the abortion to use a able adolescent bench alarming for both the commuter and the driver, it aswell carries a abeyant amends accomplished of £500.
The LV= abstraction shows that accouchement are a lot of at accident if travelling with accompany of the family, with over a division (26%) of those acceptance to not application car adolescent seats.
The analysis aswell begin that even in cases if an adapted car bench is used, about a division of drivers (24%) say they do not analysis the assurance bench is installed properly, potentially putting their adolescent cartage in danger.
In 2007 there were added than 3000 adolescent casualties as a aftereffect of alley accidents, including 121 fatalities. With such top stakes, LV= is today calling on all drivers to ensure they crop every anticipation and install adapted assurance equipment, to assure themselves and their cartage from harm.
John O'Roarke, Managing Director of LV= Car Insurance, said: "Huge strides accept been fabricated to advance adolescent assurance on the alley in contempo years, not atomic with the addition of compulsatory adolescent seats in 2006. However, it's bright that abounding drivers are still abashed about the law and for one acumen or another, are not afterward the legislation. So we'd appetite all drivers to accomplish abiding they're acquainted of the guidelines - adolescent seats can crop just 5 account to install and abundantly abate the affairs of abrasion to anybody in the car."
LV= will automatically alter adolescent assurance seats for anyone who has taken out their car allowance policy whose car has been in an accident, even if the bench looks undamaged.
About LV=
LV= and LV= Liverpool Victoria are trademarks of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited and LV= and LV= Liverpool Victoria are trading styles of the Liverpool Victoria accumulation of companies. LV= accommodate a advanced ambit of reliable and acceptable amount banking articles – from insurance to accumulation and investments.
Notes to Editors:
Omnibus analysis was agitated out on account of LV by YouGov. A nationally adumbrative sample of 2014 adults was questioned online amid 4 and 7 August 2008. Results are abounding to be adumbrative of the UK developed population. YouGov is a affiliate of the British Polling Council.
For added advice amuse contact:
Emma Holyer
Press Office
LV=
69 Park Lane
Croydon
CR9 1BG
0208 256 6714
Emma.holyer@lv.com
www.lv.com
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