Lack of instruction manuals breached EU rules

THE public was warned yesterday about fitting baby car seats properly after details emerged of the tragic death of a baby boy in a car crash last year.

Nine-and-a-half month old Harvey Desmond Burns, from Macroom, Co Cork, suffered fatal head injuries after his incorrectly-fitted baby car seat lunged forward during a car crash and smashed his head into the front passenger seat of his mother’s car, Cork Coroner’s Court heard.

A jury of six women recommended afterwards that the public be made aware of the importance of reading baby seat fitting manuals.