Britax 'Bin the Booster'?

1mommy · Aug 2, 2015

http://www.goodeggcarsafety.com/blog/britaxs-bin-the-booster/

So Britax is now claiming that backless boosters are dangerous? I thought there was no data confirming or denying a difference in safety between the two?
Thoughts?

Brianna · Aug 2, 2015

I would give this a read http://carseatblog.com/8243/to-backless-or-not-to-backless-that-is-the-question/

Is there any info to be found on what brand of backless booster they used, and how are their dummies different than ours?

lourdes · Aug 2, 2015

Does having a backless in the center makes any difference at the moment of an accident versus having a high back outboard?

arly1983 · Aug 3, 2015

There was a thread about this recently: http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=279170

The consensus was that the dummies in the video are different which means they move differently in crash tests.

1mommy · Aug 3, 2015

It just surprised me that Britax was heading up a safety campaign against backless boosters because they are known for being a leading manufacturer of child car seats and boosters, and for a while were considered to to be the "gold standard". I don't quite understand why, are profit margins better on a high back vs backless booster? So (speculating here)... its all just intended to sell more highback boosters and make more money? But you would think that maybe profit margins may be less on a backless but they may make up for it in volume as a lot more people buy backless boosters (I think?).

Kel · Aug 3, 2015

Britax has lbb's, so I'm confused.

ketchupqueen · Aug 3, 2015

I believe this is from their European division (one of them.) They don't sell boosters with a backless mode inn Europe. And they don't sell backless only here.

christineka · Aug 3, 2015

Several years ago, a European study came out that found backless booster seats were less safe than high back boosters.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/jun/21/car-booster-seat-safety

_juune · Aug 3, 2015

christineka said:
Several years ago, a European study came out that found backless booster seats were less safe than high back boosters.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/jun/21/car-booster-seat-safety

I'm not sure it's really a study or I just haven't stumbled upon the corresponding paper. I think the ADAC [= Which] says that based on their crashtests. Obviously, if a NBB is crashed in that way it's going to be ugly and a HBB will look so much better

But here it says that an emergency braking event will likely put child's head outside the head-side-wings of a HBB and side impacts usually do have a forward component; which I don't think is replicated in those side impact tests very well? The author goes as far as to say that kids taller that 130cm should actually use a NBB not a HBB.

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