POLICE are urging parents and guardians across Dorset to abide by child car seat safety laws.
Parents or guardians are being reminded it is safer to fit child seats in the rear of a vehicle, but if necessary they can be fitted in the front.
The warning comes after police have highlighted important safety information from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, that a rear facing baby seat must not be fitted in a seat protected by an active frontal airbag.
A Dorset Police spokesman said: "The law requires all children travelling in the front or rear seat of any car, van or goods vehicle must use the correct child car seat until they are either 135cm in height, or 12 years old - which ever they reach first.
"A rear facing baby seat must not be fitted into a seat protected by an active frontal airbag, as in a crash it can cause serious injury, or death to the child."
For more on this, visit: www.childcarseats.org.uk/choosing-using/fitting-child-car-seats
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