South Africa has the highest motor vehicle accident rate in the world.

If you live in South Africa, you have 1 in 101 chances of being involved in an accident.

Each year 700 000 motor vehicle accidents happen on our roads.

Each day 3 children die to due motor vehicle accidents, more are left critically injured, brain damaged or paralyzed.

Car accidents is the fourth leading cause of unnatural deaths of children in South Africa.

84% of our children travel unrestrained on our roads.

At the Red Cross Children's hospital alone, approximately 20 children a month are treated for motor vehicle accidents. 80% of these children were not restrained in any way at all.

In the event of an accident, you have half a second to react.

At only 25km/h a small child can be killed in event of an accident. That is the speed of a parking lot.

At only 40km/h the blow to a child's head is the same as dropping him/her 6 metres onto concrete floor.

At only 50km/h the weight of all objects and people in the car multiply 30 to 60 fold. Obviously the greater the speed, the greater the weight increase. To put it into perspective, a baby weighing 10kg will be 300kg at the point of impact and an adult weighing 50kg will be 1.5 tons at point of impact - that is the weight of an average car.

The lap is the most unsafe place for a baby in the vehicle. They will either be crushed by the adult (see weight increase statistic above), flung through one of the windows or fly around in the car possibly killing not only themselves but anyone else they hit.

Children under the age of 15 should be in the back seat; it will reduce their risk of death by 30%.

Children from the age of 4 to 10 (depending on height), should be in a booster seat. This will reduce their risk of injury by 59%.

Car seats reduce the risk of death by 71% in infants and 54% in toddlers.