Shandong provides children under age 12 the highway sat co-pilot | co-pilot |-ban _ driving safety news

Xinhuanet, Jinan, July 16 (reporter Wang Haiying)-recently amended the provisions of the highway traffic safety regulations of Shandong province, and vehicles entering the highway, of minors under 12 years of age are not allowed in the passenger seat.

Huai guodong, Deputy Director of the Shandong provincial public security department at the Shandong provincial government's information Office News Conference on 15th explained that prohibit minors under 12 years of age by the co-pilot, was mainly due to an airbag after the pop children will result in a fatal blow to the co-pilot. Bigger impact forces would spur the airbag, airbag from pop to expand only 1/20 second, speed of 300 kilometers per hour is equivalent to the pop-up, the resulting impact force of about 180 kg. This moment the strong explosion more than hit a hard object. Airbag protection relative to hit the windshield or the center console and other parts of the risk instead of just as many people think a "cotton stack".

Huai guodong said that even if seat belts are not safe for minors. Because the seat belt should pass from above the shoulder, reined in a collision in the chest, but falls far short of the height of any child and the adult, if as an adult seat belt, safety belt through the neck of the child, when the collision occurred, fragile neck can not withstand the tension of the belts would hurt children.

For this reason, legislation to require vehicles entering the highway in Shandong province, minors under the age of 12 are not allowed in the passenger seat, children under 4 years of age, should be equipped with the proper use of child safety seats.

New edition of the Shandong provincial Expressway traffic safety regulations will come into force on August 1.

(Edit: SN123)
10:09 on July 16, 2014 Xinhua NET