Safe Traffic Systems Ride Safer Vest?

chinookmail

New member
I posted a while ago asking about a lightweight booster to use for local taxi/car service trips for a 3 yo. As it happens, I just took an infant CPR class from a trainer who is a CPS technician. She recommended this rather than the ride-on vest. It can be bought from Elite Car Seats here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...&field-keywords=ride+safe+travel+vest&x=0&y=0

The vests appear to be fairly similar but she says this one is easier to use correctly. It's slightly heavier than the Ride On; cost is about the same.

Does anyone have experience with these?

Thanks.
 
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joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
Love it, use it when we travel, very easy to use, yup :). Kids even LIKE it (parents sometimes think it's dorky, but they need to keep their traps shut, IMO, lol). You can have the kiddo wear their cool 'space vest!' and then they plop right in the car and you route the lap/shoulderbelt in the little metal brackets that hold them, and that's that (you CAN also use it with a lapbelt and top tether, and there's a crotch strap that's optional...the instructions are very vague, but the crotch strap and top tether are not required if you have a lap/shoulderbelt, so it's 'the same as' a booster). Of course get the proper size to fit your kid, and you're set to go. :)
 

nisi

Senior Community Member
What Julie said. :thumbsup:

I find it to be not quite as easy as a booster, since threading the belt through all the little brackets is a little fiddly at times, but its portability more than makes up for that small shortcoming. Plus it's more versatile than a booster (can be used w/ lapbelt and tether), and my 6yo dd thinks it's the coolest thing ever. I can't understand why it isn't more popular. :shrug-shoulders:
 

ThreeBeans

New member
Gah! I wish there was something harnessy that worked for both the plane and the car. It would make the whole proper restraint debate a lot easier to explain to parents if they could use something portable.
 

chinookmail

New member
Regarding the airplanes, do you think a booster is significantly safer for an older child versus just using the lapbelt? It seems like most events involving airplanes are either so catastrophic that it doesn't matter what car seat or belt is being used, or else it's just turbulence that the seat belt should adequately protect them from (so at least they aren't popcorning around the plane). For a baby or young toddler who's too young for a seatbelt, it makes sense that a carseat is much much safer. But for an older child, does it really matter? Just wondering...
Rachel (who is balking at the prospect of lugging Marathon onto plane for 3 yo along with the Safe Seat for infant...)
 

chinookmail

New member
Thanks Julie and everyone who responded. I went ahead and ordered the vest. This will be so much nicer to take to Costco than the Marathon... (ie in our car service car, so leaving it in the car is not an option. No one point out that the money we spend on the car service is more than we will save at Costco, please! We need our Costco trips, and lugging home the toilet paper is NOT fun on the bus. Plus I like the samples.).
Rachel
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
Regarding the airplanes, do you think a booster is significantly safer for an older child versus just using the lapbelt? It seems like most events involving airplanes are either so catastrophic that it doesn't matter what car seat or belt is being used, or else it's just turbulence that the seat belt should adequately protect them from (so at least they aren't popcorning around the plane). For a baby or young toddler who's too young for a seatbelt, it makes sense that a carseat is much much safer. But for an older child, does it really matter? Just wondering...
Rachel (who is balking at the prospect of lugging Marathon onto plane for 3 yo along with the Safe Seat for infant...)

I let my kids as young as two ride in just the lapbelt on the plane (we have seats at our destination, no reason to bring them with us)... how about a CARES Harness (it is a couple little straps that make a 4 pt harness that IS approved by the FAA for plane use for kids 22-44 pounds).

:)
 

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