In 2017 and in the Congress of Deputies, Casualplay, together with other companies and institutions, public and private, all of them linked in some way to children’s road safety, founded AESVI, the Spanish Alliance for Children’s Road Safety.
With the premise of improving road safety for children, manufacturers and distributors of child restraint systems, automobile clubs, universities, pediatricians, emergency departments, the National Association of Midwives, the DGT, the Catalan Traffic Service, the Basque Country Traffic Directorate, consumers, the National Association of Child Safety, the CEAPA, the State security forces and bodies.
Commitment
AESVi is truly committed to improving the safety of children, with the following objectives:
- Carry out informative campaigns to raise awareness about the need to carry children properly protected in the vehicle and be a forum where users can find answers to their doubts along with truthful information on children’s road safety.
- To improve the training of professionals in charge of the sale of child restraint devices through their technical training.
- To promote information to those responsible for the safety of minors.
- Research and promote technical studies that improve safety and reduce the risk of children in vehicles.
Studies
During these years AESVI, with the active collaboration of Casualplay, has promoted studies and research that have made it possible to advance and better understand the operation and use of child restraint systems. The following two stand out:
– “Effects of the use and ageing of child restraint systems”, in which the results showed a notable deterioration in the protection capacity against the impact of second-hand CRS, generating situations of very high risk for the user. This study is a benchmark for the Ministry of Consumer Affairs in the prohibition of the sale of second-hand child restraint systems incompatible with current approval regulations: ECE R129 / i-Size.
– “Risks of direct online purchase of Child Restraint Systems”, making it clear that none of the CRS purchased on non-EU sales platforms could have been approved in their current conditions.
