On-going checks of child car restraints continue to show up an alarming failure rate.
One driver even suggested she didn't want children's car seats in her "expensive" vehicle because the installation might damage it.
The latest "restraint stop" in Wanganui checked 117 cars and found 47 of those vehicles had children's car seats incorrectly fitted.
Glenda Leitao, Roadsafe coordinator Wanganui and Rangitikei, said Plunket co-ordinated the checks.
The latest checks were carried out on November 20 outside Faith Academy in Springvale Rd and in Wanganui East. These checks showed the number of children in the correct restraints had improved from a 57 per cent fail rate in August to a 34.7 per cent failure rate this time. "But the fail rate is still far too high and it is mostly that parents or caregivers have the right child restraint, but either haven't secured the restraint correctly in their vehicle or the child is not restrained correctly," Ms Leitao said. "Sometimes the child is in the wrong-sized restraint, and quite often the seat is not bolted and tethered."