What are the safety guidelines for car seats?

Current California Law: ​Children under the age of 8 must be secured in a car seat or booster seat in the back seat. Children who are 8 years of age OR have reached 4’9” in height may be secured by a booster seat, but at a minimum must be secured by a safety belt. (California Vehicle Code Section 27363.)

What is the law for child car seats in UK?

Children must normally use a child car seat until they’re 12 years old or 135 centimetres tall, whichever comes first. Children over 12 or more than 135cm tall must wear a seat belt. You can choose a child car seat based on your child’s height or weight.

At what age are car seats no longer required?

All children whose weight or height exceeds the forward-facing limit for their car safety seat should use a belt-positioning booster seat until the vehicle seat belt fits properly, typically when they have reached 4 feet 9 inches in height and are 8 to 12 years of age.

What is the legal age to not wear a seatbelt?

16 and over
While the seat belt statute seems to indicate that persons age 16 and over do not have to wear a safety belt, remember that all persons riding in a motor vehicle should buckle up, including back-seat passengers.

Are car seats really safer?

The NHTSA says car seats reduce fatalities by 54 percent. But it draws the comparison with children sitting in cars unrestrained and not using a seat belt.

What is the law on child car seats?

The Law. The law requires all children travelling in the front or rear seat of any car, van or goods vehicle must use the correct child car seat until they are either 135 cm in height or 12 years old (which ever they reach first).

Which safety seat is “the best” for my child?

Rear-Facing Car Seat The best seat for your young child to use. It has a harness and, in a crash, cradles and moves with your child to reduce the stress to the child’s fragile neck and spinal cord.

What are the guidelines for a child car seat?

The car seat guidelines from the AAP recommend that: Infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing car seat (infant-only rear facing car seat or rear-facing convertible car seat) until they are 2 years old or until they have reached the weight and height limits of their car seat.

What to know about child car seat safety?

Safety seats include rear-facing,forward-facing,convertible,and booster seats.

  • Choose a seat that meets the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213.
  • Do not use any other type of seat.
  • Make sure the child safety seat has a harness and clip.
  • Do not reuse a child safety seat.
  • The child safety seat may have a top tether.