Crash Test – Forward vs. Rear Facing
Don’t turn your baby around at 12 months. Watch this short video and you’ll realize why you should keep your child rear facing for as long as possible. Facing the rear is 5 times safer than facing front! Instead of turning your baby around at 12 months, get a rear facing or convertible car seat and keep your toddler safe. Many convertible car seats permit children to ride rear facing until 35 lbs. which is a tremendous difference in safety. Questions? Email ad@adventuredad.com
I’m from the USA and some parents out there are just DUMB and IGNORANT. They want convenience to be the main center of their lives- after all, it is EASIER to fasten in a child forward facing, than a child rear facing and is much easier to have the child themselves strap them in. Many parents use booster seats too soon or do not use them at all. I cannot believe some people will say $300 to be expensive for a carseat, when you have internet, latest cell phone and flat screen TV with cable.
@EmbroideredFlower
in those accidents both cars are either moving in the same direction, or one is moving, and the other is standing still, so rear end accidents are never as violent and potentially deadly as head on collisions.
@fieryxxx That´s a very very good thing it didn´t. Most EU cars like this one have swicthes for the ront passenger airbag. No rearfacing seat is allowed in the front if the airbag cannot be deactivated. this is how it works here in Europe
Fieryxxx: Description of the video mention that airbag is deactivated. This can be done on most cars in Europe. A rear facing child is as safe or safer in the front seat compared to the back seat as long as airbag is deactivated
If airbag is active a child should never sit in the front seat. Children in the front seat is a very common sight in Sweden, which lead the world in car seat safety. Again, airbag must always be deactivated with key/switch/service location.
@Valigon They do, but it’s not recommended to put car seats in them, because tests have not been done regarding the safety. That said, they are a great idea, I’ve ridden backwards like that and it’s more comfortable during sudden stops.
@1Adventuredad Except that harnesses are best for everyone, at any age. It does not stop being safest at any time. A pregnant woman shouldn’t ride in a 5 point, but a 4 point is preferable then.
I would like to mention something that i didn’t see in this video…and it’s quite serious…the passenger seat airbag didn’t deploy..which if it had, it would have sent the rear facing child seat flying into the passenger seat which would have resulted in more serious damage to the child in the rear facing seat.
Rear facing as safe or safer compared to forward facing even in crashes from the rear. These crashes account for only about 5% of total accidents and are often minor since both vehicles are moving in the same direction and speeds are usually low
grrr!!!! they are only testing FRONT impact (a head on collision) What about if you are rear ended?? Would the result be the same??
What if your car got rear ended, like Vanessa Fulladosa who went to my school.
Look her up on Google.
@Valigon because not everyone are a baby…
@1Adventuredad Really? I need to look into that…
@lenats31 My point wasn’t to suggest rear-facing isn’t better. A lot of people were saying that the video would have been more effective if the two had been buckled the same way, which they are not – though it looked to be at the time as though the were, which is what my comment was about. I am a big proponent of keeping children rear-facing as long as possible, even if it means shelling out big bucks for better carseats. Lives are much too important to go cheap in that area.
@savvygater
Harnessing the forward facing child would not make any bit of a difference
@writergirl182003
The laws of physics do not work in favor of a forward facing restraint of any type and regardles of where in the car you put it. Also, airbags in Europe can be deactivated and the front seats have been optimized for safety for many years and the rearseat safety has been negelected over the same amount of years. Extended harnessing has no benefit over a booster seat. You can teach a child to sit properly all the time if you want to unless there is a dissability
@Gr8CFce even if it did break their legs, i think id prefer broken legs to a broken neck anyday!
Well, you’re the parent. You put the seat rear facing and tell them that’s their seat! Broken legs can be cast and fixed. Broken necks can’t.
I hope everyone just realizes its the proper fitting carseat that is safest my two year old is only 21lbs so he is rear facing and will be as long as it need be however his school was putting him in an infant seat because he doesnt weigh the 25 lbs there forward seats require on the bus which is more unsafe well it depends the infant seat is clearly to small he is three inches to tall for it so he doesnt have the protection needed and yes kids get broken legs
I hope everyone just realizes its the proper fitting carseat that is safest my two year old is only 21lbs so he is rear facing and will be as long as it need be however his school was putting him in an infant seat because he doesnt weigh the 25 lbs there forward seats require on the bus which is more unsafe well it depends the infant seat is clearly to small he is three inches to tall for it so he doesnt have the protection needed and yes kids get broken legs
@1Adventuredad
But if a child isnt mature enough @ 4yo to sit properly and safely in their HBB for the entire trip, every trip, then they are safer in a harness still. And I have not met any 4yo yet who can sit still and proper every time, never leaning out of place or dozing off, etc. The safest seat is the one that is age/size appropriate, and used correctly everytime. That is a harnessed seat over jsut a booster for most 4yo’s, and even some 5yo’s.
@1Adventuredad
But if a child isnt mature enough @ 4yo to sit properly and safely in their HBB for the entire trip, every trip, then they are safer in a harness still. And I have not met any 4yo yet who can sit still and proper every time, never leaning out of place or dozing off, etc. The safest seat is the one that is age/size appropriate, and used correctly everytime. That is a harnessed seat over jsut a booster for most 4yo’s, and even some 5yo’s.
@rizzo0904 Radian 80sl and xtsl RF to 45 lbs and the 65sl RF to 40 lbs. The US is so far behind because not enough people care enough to create the demand, hopefully that is changing!
@Valigon Beacuse carseats can’t be installed in rearfacind vehicle seats.
@rizzo0904 Not true….Sunshine Kids has @ seats the RF to 45 lbs, the Radian 80sl and the Radian XTSL
@Gr8CFce My 5.5 year old is rearfacing, he loves it and doesnt want to turn around. He usually rides criss cross. My toddler’s legs still have plenty of room RFing. Even on the off chance a child were to break a leg in a crash it’s a whole lot easier to fix a leg bone then a spinal cord.