Parents have been urged to ensure child car seats are fitted correctly following checks in Fife which three out of four failed.
Three-quarters of the car seats assessed in Fife last year were incorrectly fitted or wrong for the size of the child.
Over the new few months parents will be able to have car seats checked for free.
Fife Council’s safer community teams is holding free clinics, where advice will also be available from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
The team’s project manager Gillian Kelly said: “Last year 75% of the child car seats that Fife checked turned out to be incorrectly fitted, this ranged from the seatbelt being too loose to the seat being completely incompatible for the child.
“In these situations the children sitting in these seats could have been in danger if the car was to be involved in a road collision as the child car seat would not have performed as safely as it is designed to do.”
The next two clinics are at St Andrews Fire Station on Thursday, May 19, between 10am and 12pm, and Tesco Dunfermline (town centre) on Thursday, May 26, between 1pm and 3pm.
The full list can be found on Facebook or obtained by e-mailing roadsafety.education@fife.gov.uk.
