After a fatal accident down the road I emailed some neighbors some links to articles encouragin them to consider keeping their kids extended rear facing/5pt harnesses.
I have my 3.5YO DD in a Boulevard and this particular response troubled me. Does this have merit... or is this particular concern addressed by tethering?
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"Another problem with the rear facing: The bigger Britax ones score miserably on the crash tests if installed rear facing. They give in too much possibly smushing the kid into the rear of the seat. They score high forward facing but not backward. We used to have the Evenflo which is cheaper and better than the Britax.
And in the U.S., Consumer Reports doesn’t do crash testing with the seats. In German equivalent of AAA does that every year and you can pull the reports off the internet. Then you can buy the top rating seats through AAA. There are seats that are bad, bad. Here all they test is “ease of use” as if that would mean that much!
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I have my 3.5YO DD in a Boulevard and this particular response troubled me. Does this have merit... or is this particular concern addressed by tethering?
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"Another problem with the rear facing: The bigger Britax ones score miserably on the crash tests if installed rear facing. They give in too much possibly smushing the kid into the rear of the seat. They score high forward facing but not backward. We used to have the Evenflo which is cheaper and better than the Britax.
And in the U.S., Consumer Reports doesn’t do crash testing with the seats. In German equivalent of AAA does that every year and you can pull the reports off the internet. Then you can buy the top rating seats through AAA. There are seats that are bad, bad. Here all they test is “ease of use” as if that would mean that much!
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