Do you need a car seat in hong kong?

Also, I don't mean to sound like the car seat police, but did have a terrible experience with a dog in a taxi which crashed a while ago. A friend and I were headed to Pokfulam with her spaniel (roughly the size of a 1 year old). Dog, which was being held on her lap, went flying into the windscreen, broke its back amongst other injuries and subsequently died. The crash happened at under 50km/h and we knew it was going to happen a second or two before impact. We were also pretty beaten up just from the force of being thrown forward into the seal belt. I shudder to think about what would have happened had it been a baby in the car.
 
Bracing yourself in a crash is irrelevant. Holding or not holding a baby is irrelevant. In a 30mph crash, you are thrown forward with a weight 30 to 60 times your own body weight. Could you hold on to a baby that suddenly goes from weighing 10kg to 300kg? Or do you think outstretched arms or braced legs could prevent the weight of your own body (x30) being thrown around the car?

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regulatory-devices/child-car-seat.htm
 
Most parents blindly go and buy seats hoping that it will keep their kids "safe".
Its advisable that parents do a bit of research on effectiveness of seats and belts. Once you do so, most will quickly come to the realization that belts and seats dont give as much protection as we are led to believe and the only good way to prevent injury and death is to not put a baby in a car at all; as this may not be practical, minimise it as much as possible.

A couple of links to explore :
http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/regrev/evaluate/806890.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_on_child_carseats.html
 
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