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Hurphy Durphy Seat Belt Buckle Guard Cover

Condition: BRAND NEW Brand: Hurphy Durphy SKU: ahurpdurp Barcode: 0705105208992

Description: The Hurphy Durphy Seat Belt Buckle Guard is a live saving child safety device designed to prevent the accidental release of the seat belt buckle anchoring a capsule or infant seat. Hurphy Durphy is an essential part of preparing for the safe arrival of your baby! Every capsule and infant seat should have one.

How accidents happen: Inquisitive children are often responsible for unfastening the seat belt buckle keeping a child restraint in place. Adults can also accidentally do this when they are departing the vehicle. Shopping bags placed on the back seat can cause the buckle to disengage. Once this occurs, the child restraint becomes unanchored, creating a very dangerous situation for the child.

The Hurphy Durphy is a life-saving product. All parents want to keep their children safe in the car. So itâs frightening to learn that, according to the 2006 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, for every five injuries sustained by children in motor vehicle accidents, two are the direct result of incorrectly fitted child restraints.

Statistics from the same conference reported than an incorrectly restrained child is seven times more likely to sustain life-threatening injuries than those restrained properly. Alarmingly, it has been documented that around the world, over 70 per cent of child restraints are incorrectly installed.

Seat belt buckles act as anchor points for child restraints. In most cases, a rear-located anchor point is securely mounted and latched in, while the second anchor point is a seat belt buckle. If this buckle is undone and an accident occurs, the combined weight of the child and the restraint creates