ROAD safety officers from Nottinghamshire County Council will be in Mansfield offering free child car seat advice.

“If child car seats are not properly attached to the car in which they are being used then they can give little or none of the protection they are designed to provide,” said Zena Oliver, the council’s principal highways safety officer.

“When we’ve held safety checks before we’ve discovered that as many as 73% of seats were either fitted or adjusted incorrectly.

“In most cases they were either too loosely fixed to the car’s own seat itself or the seatbelt webbing was not threaded correctly through the child seat.

“This can sometimes be a result of the busy lives we all live nowadays, where child seats are moved from car to car, or simply that parents either haven’t been shown how to install the seats correctly, have ignored instructions or have bought second-hand and the original packaging and instructions are missing.

“Our drop-in sessions are an ideal opportunity for parents and carers to get information and advice about child seats and in-car safety generally.”

The team will be in action at Mansfield Carr Bank Fun Day on Thursday 6th) and Sainsbury’s in Mansfield on Tuesday 11th.