New baby car seat position in back - drivers side or passenger side

notanewuser

mountainofdebt wrote: »

looks like me & rospa (http://www.rospa.com/faqs/detail.aspx?faq=348) will have to disagree with you

Hmmmmm. How many cars have a full size seat pad in the middle and a 3 point seatbelt though? Can't be many. I drive a 4x4 and couldn't have put either of DD's seats there, even if they'd recommended putting them in the middle (the 2nd actively didn't).

Which recommend the other rear seats over the middle one in their tests.

http://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-child/baby-transport/reviews-ns/child-car-seat-fitting-problems-explored/child-seats-in-large-cars/

sweaty_betty

notanewuser wrote: »

Hmmmmm. How many cars have a full size seat pad in the middle and a 3 point seatbelt though? Can't be many. I drive a 4x4 and couldn't have put either of DD's seats there, even if they'd recommended putting them in the middle (the 2nd actively didn't).

Which recommend the other rear seats over the middle one in their tests.

http://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-child/baby-transport/reviews-ns/child-car-seat-fitting-problems-explored/child-seats-in-large-cars/

That's true. When I was looking for a car which would fit 3 child seats in the back, very few (non-people-carriers) were rated as appropriate as the middle seat could usually only be used for a child on a booster seat.

We have always had LO in the seat behind the driver for all the reasons listed by PPs.

Hiddenidenity

notanewuser wrote: »

Hmmmmm. How many cars have a full size seat pad in the middle and a 3 point seatbelt though? Can't be many. I drive a 4x4 and couldn't have put either of DD's seats there, even if they'd recommended putting them in the middle (the 2nd actively didn't).

Which recommend the other rear seats over the middle one in their tests.

http://www.which.co.uk/baby-and-child/baby-transport/reviews-ns/child-car-seat-fitting-problems-explored/child-seats-in-large-cars/

I suppose I'm lucky then both my car now and previous car had 3 "seperate" full seats and a 3 point seatbelt. The new car will to as i obviously need to fit 3 seats in. I also keep them rear facing up until 3

Gillyx

Behind the passengers seat. (is what we do)

notanewuser

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

I suppose I'm lucky then both my car now and previous car had 3 "seperate" full seats and a 3 point seatbelt. The new car will to as i obviously need to fit 3 seats in. I also keep them rear facing up until 3

DD is still rearfacing in 1 car (she's 3 in a week or so).

flea72

Drivers side. Really cant be arsed with circumnavigating the car, just to put a seat in/out

All this guff about passenger side, so i dont open door into road, er isnt that dictated by which side of the car you park next to the kerb?

Drivers side, means you can see them in the rearview mirror. These people who say passenger side because they can turn around and see them, sounds too dangerous to take eyes off road and it cricks your neck

mumps

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

I suppose I'm lucky then both my car now and previous car had 3 "seperate" full seats and a 3 point seatbelt. The new car will to as i obviously need to fit 3 seats in. I also keep them rear facing up until 3

One of mine suffers badly from travel sickness, when she was little it was even worse in a rear facing seat. Obviously she was too young to explain but it was a nightmare and we figured out what it was. Poor thing became hysterical when we put her in the car which was understandable as she did suffer so much.

Sagaris

notanewuser wrote: »

Not even slightly correct. The front seats offer protection. You should never put a child seat in the middle - if the seat detaches there's nothing to stop the child (plus seat) being thrown through the windscreen.

If the seat is correctly installed it won't be going anywhere!

Statistically the safest place is the centre of the back seat - that position is protected best from side, rear or frontal impacts - but a PITA to lean across to put the seat in!

We usually recommend to put the seat behind the front passenger (near side) as that is nearest the kerb, so you are not standing in the road to get the baby in and out.

lazywife

Drivers side. If I'm on my own in car, can see in rear view mirror (have mirror on seat to see into him in car seat). If both of us in car, on longer journeys then I can easily reach back from passenger seat (can't travel in back with LO as bad travel sickness myself). X

fluffnutter

In the 1970s we just used to lie on the parcel shelf.