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Here's what I do, and why they say the back seat.. (archive)
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Posted by Andy 02 on January 15, 2001 at 15:07:38:

In Reply to: Car Seats in an '02 posted by Chuck on January 14, 2001 at 22:51:00:

The lad's been riding with me in the '02 since he was about one and a half...

But the original condition seatbelts don't hold a car seat in well, front or back. The back is especially bad because the seat is so springy.

So, I got a cargo strap with a racheting connector, that I attach to the rear seatbelt, then pass up and inside the front seat. Crank the thing down, and that car seat is going nowhere.

The reason common wisdom is to put kids in the back seat (aside from airbags) comes from the most common type of fatal accident (48% of them!), that being putting your driver's side headlight through an oncoming car's driver's side headlight. In accidents like that, being as far away as possible from the impact is safest, thus statisically speaking, being in the back passenger side of the car is safest.

Andy -- '72tii



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