Expert agrees
I PA Wellington The Piunket Society report calling for improvements in the “uniformly bad” level of child safety in cars had received support from a Ministry of Transport safety expert. “I think it is certainly right that most children are not properly restrained,” a senior research officer in the Ministry’s Road Transport Division, Mr P. Hurst, said yesterday. “I would say the people here would agree with nearly everything it says,” he said. Mr Hurst thought the report would be received
sympathetically by the , Ministry. “We would like to see a j lot of these things in effect. It is only a matter of how far you can go by ■ legal compulsion and how • much you can accomplish ] by education,” he said. ( From what he had read , in the report, the only , point with which the Min- i istry would not agree was its advice that adult seat belts should not be used by children under eight, “We would feel that a child smaller than eight would be better off with an adult seat belt than with nothing at all,” he said.
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