A ROAD safety campaign which aims to save children's lives is being supported by Hampshire County Council.
#SaveKidsLives urges everyone to support the Decade for Action for road safety which is running from 2011 to 2020, with the aim of reducing child casualties on the roads across the world.
The campaign is being highlighted during the UN Global Road Safety Week from May 4 to 10.
Hampshire County Council (HCC) aims to make the roads across the county safer for everyone to use, and it runs campaigns throughout the year to highlight the importance of road safety, focusing on drivers, riders, cyclists and pedestrians.
As part of the #SaveKidsLives campaign, HCC's Road Safety Team are running free car seat checks on Tuesday, May 5 at the Blackwater Shopping Park in Farnborough, from 11am until 4pm.
The event gives people the chance to have their car seat checked to ensure it is compatible with the vehicle, is fitted correctly and is suitable for the age and weight of the child using it.
In previous car seat checks, it was found that 80 per cent of seats did not meet one of more of these criteria and therefore would not have fully protected the child if they had been in a crash.
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