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Tragedy sees calls for child-safe cars

A technician demonstrates how to use car booster seats at the National Institute for Child and Family Development, Mahidol University, in May last year. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

Parents are being urged to equip their vehicles with seats and seatbelts suitable for young children to prevent a repeat of Sunday’s accident in which a six-year-old boy was thrown from a pickup truck on an elevated expressway and plunged to his death in Samut Prakan.

The violent swerve, as his father’s vehicle hit the guard rail, sent the boy flying out of the open window to his death 30 metres below and prompted National Institute for Child and Family Development of Mahidol University director Dr Adisak Plitponkarnpim to lead calls for parents to obtain…

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