In July 2014, a 3-year-old girl fell off a shopping cart in Guangzhou when she and her mother were checking out of a home furnishings store. After the doctor diagnosed and treated, the little girl suffered multiple skull fractures.

In December 2015, a 1-year-old child in Shandong province got his left foot stuck in the gap in front of a child's shopping cart seat and was rescued by fire.

On March 12, 2016, a woman named He put her 3-year-old daughter in the shopping cart and took her to a supermarket leisurely. However, the daughter suddenly fell from the cart and suffered intracranial hemorrhage. She was once in critical condition.

Reporter visit: shopping cart into "children's car" dangerous environment

When shopping in supermarkets, many parents are used to putting their children in the shopping cart, which is fun for the children and saves the parents the trouble of carrying the children and shopping by cart. However, news of children being injured by falls due to irregular shopping cart rides abound.

Nowadays, many parents use shopping carts as both a food basket and a temporary "baby carriage". Some children are mischievous, wandering in the car, or even standing on the child's chair; Some curious children, standing in the basket and looking at the goods on the shelf, are so excited to see what they like that they reach for it, which can easily cause the cart to turn over.

In fact, only children under 3 years of age are allowed to use the shopping cart, and the maximum load of the shopping cart seat is only 15 kilograms. Overage children riding in shopping carts are "top-heavy" and prone to rolling over.

Recently, the reporter visited a number of large supermarkets in the county, and found that it is very common for parents to take their children to shopping malls and supermarkets, using shopping carts as "baby carriages".

At a supermarket in the county town, there is a special folding board at the end of the shopping cart. Children can sit on the board and stick their legs into the two "holes" in the back of the cart to prevent them from falling off. But some parents let their children sit or stand in the shopping cart.

Reporters found that parents in the purchase of goods, often ignore the children in the shopping cart, the child is easy to be attracted to the supermarket in a variety of goods, often in the car shake right and left, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting on the edge of the cart, dangerous.

In another supermarket in the county town, it is hot in summer, many citizens choose to take their children to the supermarket for a cool stroll. Some parents leave several children behind in the empty shopping cart while they pick out the goods. The children stand on the cart looking around, and try to walk and play in the car. On the other side, a reporter saw a 10-year-old girl pushing a shopping cart and playing "bumper cars" with her brother sitting in another shopping cart.

Supermarket helpless: dissuade for many times the effect is not big

Although most supermarket shopping carts have special "children's seats" and signs such as "Do not allow children to stand in the basket, make sure the child is seated", many cart instructions are blurred, and the cart seat belt has been damaged, there are hidden dangers.

A supermarket employee told reporters that in addition to Posting and broadcasting tips, staff would sometimes remind people if they saw the illegal use of shopping carts. "But a lot of parents don't listen to us. Even if we correct them, they are still the same after a while.

"Please do not leave children alone in the shopping cart," a warning sign in a large supermarket in the county said. In the shopping cart handrails, there are four warning signs about children riding in the shopping cart: "The child stands in the shopping cart", "the child leans over the edge of the shopping cart", and "The parent turns his back on the shopping cart and lets the child alone in the shopping cart" are marked with prohibited symbols. Instead, sit with your child facing the parent, legs across the space in front of the seat, and seat belts fastened.

Using a tape measure, it was found that a normal shopping cart with a capacity of 100 litres had a minimum height of 28 cm and a maximum height of 42 cm. Compared with the average height of a 1-year-old boy, 88.5 cm for a 2-year-old boy and 101.5 cm for a 3-year-old boy, children are prone to fall and fall injuries when standing on a shopping cart.

At another supermarket, a reporter noticed that folding seats for children were marked with the warning "Max 15kg", which means the maximum weight is 15kg.

Consumer: Mistakenly believing that children are safer in the shopping cart

"The boy doesn't feel comfortable sitting there. He likes to stand. I don't want to put him in the car and I don't want him to run away. A shopping mother told reporters that every time her son came to the supermarket, he would yell "drive". When it comes to safety, the mother said, "it should be ok for adults to pay more attention."

However, some residents have objected. "Shopping carts are very unhygienic, especially with more bacteria after loading fresh food," Hu said. Dirt from children's soles can easily be left in the shopping cart." He thinks supermarkets should use shopping carts with more user-friendly designs. "I've seen shopping carts where the bottom of the cart is in the shape of a car and the child can sit inside and the basket is on top, so it's much safer," he says.

11 tips for taking your baby to the supermarket shopping cart:

1. Pay attention to the quality of the shopping cart, especially the baby's seat. Check the structure and load bearing capacity of the shopping cart, the flexibility and inclination of the car, etc., to ensure that the car is safe and let the child put the cart seat on.

2. The shopping cart seat space should be suitable for your baby. For example, the shopping cart seat space is narrow and small, but the child has a fat body, so that the child is easy to be stuck; If the space slants big, the child is relatively young, sit on the chair does not have the function of safety protection.

3. Do not put the child in the shopping cart frame to avoid the danger of children's autonomous activities when adults are shopping.

4. Do not let your baby stand in the shopping cart, especially for older children. Pulling the cart or baby's activities will easily cause the child's center of gravity to be unstable and fall down, or even out of the cart.

5. Do not let the baby use his fingers and toes to button the gaps of the shopping cart, so as to prevent the baby from being scratched by the card owner's hand, toes or metal.

6. Baby sitting in the shopping cart, always remind the baby to put his hands on the armrest in front of his chest, do not put small hands on both sides of the cart, to prevent the baby's hands by the shopping cart cut injured.

7. When there is a shopping cart passing back and forth, you should always pay attention to the baby's hands and feet, so as to prevent the baby from not paying attention to activities and stretching out his hands and feet by the passing shopping cart.

8. Do not let the baby grab the goods on the shopping rack with his hands, especially the high and disorderly shopping rack, so as to prevent the baby from falling onto the goods on the shelf when grabbing.

9. When baby takes shopping cart, it is necessary to reinforce a safety belt for the child. If the shopping cart is not equipped, the baby can tie the waist of the baby on the shopping cart with a carry-on scarf to prevent the baby from turning over the shopping cart without safety awareness.

10. Don't let the baby push the shopping cart. The baby's height is limited.

11 parents shopping, never careless, do not put the child on the shopping cart to shop at will, do not leave the child alone, to ensure that the child is always within the scope of their own vision, to prevent the loss of the baby.