Wheel Well Urges South Africans To Donate Used Child Car Seats Amid Shocking Brain Injury Statistics

Road accidents are the single biggest killer of healthy children in South Africa.

According to the Red Cross Childrens Hospital, a local child is 10 times more likely to die on our roads than a child in Switzerland.

Furthermore, 80 of severe brain injuries in children have been linked to road accidents and in 96 of these cases the child was not buckled up, according to the African Brain Child Initiative.

It goes without saying that the risk of injury or death is significantly reduced when a child is strapped into a car seat that is appropriate for their weight and height, and this is law too.

Unfortunately, in these hard financial times, many young families struggle to afford a child seat for their car.