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All parents want to protect their children from personal injury. This is why it is interesting to learn that the British Medical Journal has reported that parents in the UK may switch their children from rear-facing car seats much earlier than they should be.
Although most parents make the change from rear-facing to front-facing at around eight months, research by scientists in both Britain and the USA indicates that serious and indeed fatal personal injury could be avoided in many car accidents by parents delaying the switch to front-facing seats until children are much older.
The British scientists analysed accident data from Sweden, where children tend to be in rear-facing seats until the age of four, while a study of US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data concluded that rear-facing seats should be used for all children up until the age of 23 months.
Rear-facing seats are thought to be safer for various reasons, not least because they seem to provide better protection from neck injuries such as whiplash.
Dr Elisabeth Watson, one of the scientists behind the British study, comments, "Rear facing car seats cradle a child in an impact with any frontal component, and align the head, neck and spine, spreading the crash forces over all of these body areas.
"In a forward facing car seat, a child's body is held back by the straps, while the head keeps moving forwards, and the relatively large head mass and differences in the cervical spine in young children can lead to excessive stretching of the spinal cord."
While Duncan Vernon, from Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said that "the evidence shows that it is safer for children to travel rearward-facing for as long as possible, although that does not mean forward-facing seats are dangerous."
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