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22/06/2009
Many parents are confused by their legal responsibilities regarding child seats, according to new research by consumer group Which?.
By law, children must use a raised seat to boost their height until they are either 12 years old or 135cm (4ft 5in) tall - after which they must use an adult seat belt.
However, the study - which quizzed 395 parents who have children aged 15 or under - found that 38% of parents believed these requirements for height and age were lower, while 18% believed that eight-year-olds do not need to use a raised seat.
While it is the responsibility of the driver to ensure that passengers under the age of 14 are legally restrained, less than half (42%) of parents who were questioned correctly understood the law.
The news, released to coincide with Child Safety Week, follows a report last month by Which? that concluded some car seats were too complicated to install correctly.
According to the group's testing, wrongly-installed seats pose a risk to children in the event of a crash.
It also found some seats that offered poor crash protection even if correctly installed.
Which? editor Richard Headland said: "Kids are at risk if they're not properly secured in a seat appropriate to their weight and height.
"Unfortunately there's still huge confusion amongst parents about who should be using a child car seat."
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