Medical experts say that sitting away from traffic could be up to 75 per cent safer for youngsters than facing other vehicles. As a result, parents are being advised to put babies and young children in rear-facing child seats up to the age of four. However, in practice most youngsters grow out of them by the time they are eight months old. Studies in both Sweden and the US both show that rear-facing seats are better at protecting children.

Woking GP Dr Elizabeth Watson and Dr Michael Monteiro, a specialist registrar at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, who compiled the study, say that using forward-facing child seats before the age of four is dangerous and could result in spinal injuries in an accident.

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