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The jury was unanimous: “The 5 Point Plus belt provides much improved safety for a child in a safety-seat.”

The jury was unanimous: “The 5 Point Plus belt provides much improved safety for a child in a safety-seat.”To mark the start of the world’s largest trade fair for babies & toddlers, a jury of representatives from the trade, the German technical inspectorate TÜV and the media carefully reviewed the new products and selected the winners in a total of eight categories.

5 point plus was named winner in the World of Moving Baby & Travelling Baby Accessories category.

The jury was unanimous: “The 5 Point Plus belt provides much improved safety for a child in a safety-seat.”

Read the full press release from Kind + Jugend

Bronze winner 2011/12

After just six months on the market, the 5 point plus was named winner in the Practical Parenting & Pregnancy Best Safety Product 2011/12 Awards, achieving a Bronze medal.

Unlike other awards that are assessed by expert panels from the industry, this award is based on opinions of mums and dads.

Winning Bronze is a validation of the 5 point plus’s quality, usability and value by real mums & dads

Practical Parenting & Pregnancy January 2012 issue (on sale December 2011) will showcase all the Product Awards winners so look out for our product in that issue.

Most children aged 15 months to 3 years go through a traumatic period where they wriggle out of their car seat harness, putting their lives at risk.

What are the options?

How often has your car seat belt saved your life? Probably very few times, if any! However, a seat belt is mandatory in cars and compulsory to be worn, simply because of the consequences of an accident even if very unlikely to happen.

Is it really necessary? In a nutshell YES! You don’t plan to have accident when you pop to the shops

There is a strong reason why the 5 point plus was named innovation winner by both the Baby Products Association and Kind + Jugend, please don’t take chances with your young child, fit the 5 point plus today.


If you are in the trade why not stop by our stand at the Kind + Jugend Cologne Germany, Europe’s largest trade fair for babies & toddlers. We are situated in hall 11.1 stand A049, directly opposite Bugaboo, the trendsetting pram and pushchair manufacturer.

Last year we invited leading car seat manufacturers to view and comment on the 5 point plus, this year we launched the 5 point plus and are now inviting the world to do business. Let’s make child seats safer for children.

For the many retailers that have already contacted us, we will be sending out a personal invite to come and say hello and to see why we are getting excellent reviews.

Melanie Roman, aged 2, was travelling in a Graco child seat when the vehicle was involved in a frontal collision, followed by a secondary impact (Source: www.justice.org, American Association for Justice). After the crash, the shoulder straps were found loose around Melanie’s arms. Evidently, she had unfastened the chest clip prior to the accident and had removed her arms, creating a lap belt (Watch simulation of 30mph impact: Child dummy in similar position with shoulders freed from harness).

Melanie suffered a spinal cord injury, resulting in paraplegia. She is now in a wheelchair and will require assistance for the rest of her life.

In the USA, the issue of children wriggling out of their harness has long been acknowledged and the solution until now, despite its many drawbacks and risks, has been the chest clip.

The Roman v Graco case, from the USA, centred on whether or not the chest clip could be unbuckled by a child as opposed to focusing on the design flaw inherent in the car seat harness set up when deployed in a child environment. The design flaw is highlighted by the ease with which children can slip their arms under the harness. The issue is the gap between the harness and the child’s body, just above the red release buckle. Car seat manufacturers have tried to work around this problem by simply attaching a secondary clip or buckle in the chest region, with the objective of holding the two shoulder harnesses together. The chest clip does not tackle the actual design flaw of the harness, but is merely a work around that also introduces additional risks (see https://5pointplus.com/no-wonder-chest-clips-on-car-seats-are-illegal/.

When designing a product, thought must be given to reasonable foreseeable use and potential type of user. Car seats are obviously used by children and “the unpredictable behaviour of children” (source: The General Product Safety Regulations 2005) should be considered as very important. The child’s ability to comprehend why they must not push their arms under the car seat harness, effectively releasing their shoulders from the car seat restraint needs to be taken in account too.

Since the development of the 5 point plus system, car seat manufacturers have a safe and effective solution to the problem of young children slipping their car seat harness. No longer should cases focus on the chest clip but on the design flaw itself and whether or not parents have used the seat as per user instructions.

It has been reported that the Roman v Graco case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum(https://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xchg/justice/hs.xsl/15319.htm).

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