Correctly fitted child restraints have proven over the years to be very effective in preventing injuries to children in a car crash. According to the RACV, over 1500 children were killed between 1989 and 2004 as passengers in motor vehicles. Many would undoubtedly be alive today if they had been correctly restrained.
In many cases of child injury, an inappropriate restraint (where the child is too young or too small for the restraint) has been used, or the restraint has been used incorrectly. One of the key road safety concerns with child restraints is that the majority of them are simply NOT correctly fitted.