Drivers should ensure that, according to brake are properly set the headrests.
And road safety charity says driver should change cars if you have no head restraints, or those equipped can be adjusted incorrectly.
Head restraints are intended to protect the head in an accident and to prevent the neck hyper extension ', while a crash - which can lead to serious injuries.A report of 2008 by the Association of British insurance company showed that over 432,000 people an insurance claim for whiplash every year make injuries.
Brake says that the way to a headrest adjust adjust the backrest, so that it upright, bring the restraint rather than reclined, as close as possible to the back of the head as possible modified.system, restraint should be then adjusted so that its top level with the top is the seat occupant of head.
However, carried out a survey for the charity, two-thirds of respondents said that you did not know how to properly position the restraint or incorrectly thought, its peak should be level with the neck and the ears.
"Even if drivers your headrest research shows regularly, us, an idea would most drivers, whether it was correct or not," said brake Chief Executive Mary Williams OBE.
Call for a major awareness-raising campaign on "this life-saving, easy action", warned you that "wrong head restraints result in death, permanent disability, and in the more minor cases back and neck pain unbearable".
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