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Mobile Car Looking back for longer is the way forward

ServiCing Hundreds of children are killed or the best available car seats and
seriously injured every year, but
discovered that rear facing seats
& repairS Swindon area mums Jayne Caul and were not only safest for babies,
Kirsty Peters are literally turning
but are also much safer for young
★ Electrical work things around. children. They really save lives.”
★ MoTs arranged Their shared passion in keeping At the time there was so little
(no re-test fee) children safe in the car led them information about rear facing
★ All vehicle diagnostics to found Securatot and become seats and they were incredibly
leading UK experts in rear facing difficult to obtain in the UK. In
For a reliable local service
with over 30 years experience car seats for children up to six the end they had to import them
years old. from Sweden. Soon their friends A rear facing car seat for
SAVE 20% - No VAT to pay Kirsty said: “When our babies asked for help and so they started longer is safer for children
Call Graham on (01793) were born we wanted to keep them Securatot to pioneer rear facing
873045 or 07867 556350 safe as possible. We looked for seats in the UK. They also protect the child from
Science shows that the best flying debris and provide the best
protection in the most common protection for the child against
and dangerous car collisions is to excessive stretching or even
be rear facing. These seats simply snapping the spinal cord, which
spread crash stress much better. can result in a head-on crash.
This is so important for children Rear facing seats are widely
who are much more vulnerable accepted to be up to five times
than adults to the forces safer than forward facing.
experienced in a car crash. Jayne said: “In Europe children
A child travelling rear-facing travel rear facing until they are at
is safely pushed into the seat least four and as long as possible.
during a collision. The force of The UK is now catching up and
the impact is absorbed by the things are changing fast. Our new
•
• Free estimate at your home or work We now complete all repairs in our workshop| seat and spread evenly across the Securatot.co.uk website is full of
• We will collect and return your car, free of charge, the same day child’s body. Rear-facing seats advice for parents, and the recent
cushion and limit the head’s BBC Watchdog programme and
movement, reducing the force the new i-Size regulation has only
on the neck by up to 600%. added to the interest.”

38 swindonlink.com n February 2016