If your employer lends you their Chelsea tractor for driving the children around, you might point out to them a study published this month which proves once and for all that four-wheel-drive vehicles are no safer for children than smaller passenger cars in a crash. It's all to do with the 4WD's higher risk of rolling over. Research at the prestigious Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the US found that children involved in rollover accidents were three times more likely to be injured than children in non-rollovers. Co-author of the study Dennis Durbin said, 'People who use an SUV as their family vehicle should know that they do not provide superior protection for child occupants and that age-appropriate and size-appropriate restraints and rear seating for children under 13 are critically important.'
If your employer lends you their Chelsea tractor for driving the children around, you might point out to them a study published this month which proves once and for all that four-wheel-drive vehicles are no safer for children than smaller passenger cars in a crash. It's all to do with the 4WD's higher risk of rolling over. Research at the prestigious Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the US found that children involved in rollover accidents were three times more likely to be injured than children in non-rollovers. Co-author of the study Dennis Durbin said, 'People who use an SUV as their family vehicle should know that they do not provide superior protection for child occupants and that age-appropriate and size-appropriate restraints and rear seating for children under 13 are critically important.'
