China Pushing Child Safety Seats to Reduce Accident Toll: Cars

China lost almost three times as many children in car accidents as the U.S. last year, even though it has fewer than half the number of vehicles.

The government increased penalties this year for failing to fasten seat belts or using a mobile phone while driving. The next step: getting parents to install child-safety seats in a country where only about one in 100 cars have them. The World Health Organization says the seats, which reduce stress to the neck and spinal cord in a crash, can cut deaths by 70 percent.