– Not good, says Trond Atle Bjelland, head of traffic and the sea at Stavanger police station about the speech from Trygg Trafikk. The count was made by the police for Trygg Trafikk and the insurance company If. There have been 2,090 registrations of children aged up to nine years in the whole of Norway. One in three children between the ages of one and four sit forward, even though the recommendation is backwards until they are four. In a press release, Trygg Trafikk calls the talk “scary”. – People are not as good at securing the children as we had thought, says Bjelland. Didn’t know about recommendation Outside of an open kindergarten in Stavanger, Irene Schmidt agrees. The boy Einar is one and a half years old. He sits backwards. The three older siblings have also done so. Until they were four years old. – Studies and tests show that they are safest in the back in an accident, Schmidt explains why. She thinks it needs to be talked about more. – It may be that people do not know that it is not safe to sit forward, she says. – A bang can happen at any time, whether the child is four or five or one year old, says Irene Shcmidt. Ho and Norhild Caroline Valvik outside an open kindergarten in Stavanger. Photo: Odd Rune Kyllingstad / news Norhild Caroline Valvik will also visit the kindergarten. She comes on foot, but in the car she has a rear-facing seat for the girl, who is one and a half years old. Nordhild Caroline Valvik has bought a seat her girl can sit backwards in until she is four years old, even if she is tall. Photo: Odd Rune Kyllingstad / news She will continue with that. But that is because Valvik has received advice from friends and acquaintances. – I did not know that it was a national recommendation. Maybe there should have been more information, she says. Lower risk to the rear According to Trygg Trafikk, surveys are made of securing children in cars every other year. They don’t think it will get better soon enough. – A child sitting backwards has a five times lower risk of serious injury and death than one in a forward-facing seat. It is a shame that more parents are not concerned with securing their children well enough, says Christoffer Solstad Steen, press manager at Trygg Trafikk. Some say the kids are too tall to sit facing backwards. But according to Steen, there are several child seats, and all of them have a recommendation for maximum height and maximum weight. In order to have peace of mind in the car, Bjelland in the police also believes that it is a matter of knowledge. – The head is heavy. In an accident, children can be seriously injured if they are turned around too early, he says. Attitudes also play a role, he believes. The police have noticed that parents are not as careful about securing their children in the car on roads with a lower speed limit. Trond Atle Bjelland in the police in Stavanger. The survey also revealed that 4 percent only sit on car cushions, in normal seat belts or are unsure. In Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal, four out of ten sit facing forward, more than the national average. Photo: Odd Rune Kyllingstad / news – I also think that in order to have peace of mind in the car, they turn the kids over a little too early, he says, and believes that anyone who knows should share with others. – If someone sees people who do not secure their young properly, you can actually say that it must be done in a different way, he adds.
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1 in 3 toddlers sit forward in the child seat instead of rear-facing. Trygg Trafikk calls talk scary – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
