WTK : Car seat advisable location for kids

[Premchand1976]

I have a Toyota VIGO and I think there are no airbags on the dash in front the passenger seat so I am wondering if :

1. A rear facing baby car seat can be set up in the front passenger seat OR
2. A front facing toddler car seat can be installed.

Reason I'm asking is I have 2 kids, a newborn and a 2yr old and find it's a bit difficult to have them both in the back seats with mom in between them ( with all the bags )

We also have a Wingroad rider and I know for sure the both seats MUST be installed in the rear passenger seats of the car because of the airbag located on th dash in front the left front passenger seat.

Anyone knows for sure if it's just that it's prohibited because of the airbags or if there are any other reason(s)

Anyone knows for sure if this allowed / prohibited ? Legal or Illegal etc etc ?

Thanks in advance.

[hong kong phooey]

According to our laws any child, no matter height or weight, below the age of five, must be in a booster seat, and cannot travel in the front seat of any private motor vehicle or else the driver can be fined $2,000 according to our Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act, 2010.

info taken from this article
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/_Ma ... 72645.html

No child car seat — $2,000 fine
Wednesday, February 10 2010

GOVERNMENT kept good its Budget vow to mandate child safety seats in the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010, laid in Lower House last Friday and distributed to reporters yesterday in the Senate.

The Bill bans a driver from having a child under the age of five in the front seat and specifies how young children must be secured in a vehicle. A child under six months of age shall be “restrained in a properly fastened and adjusted, rearward-facing child restraint,” the Bill specifies.

A child aged six months to four-years-old, must occupy a rearward facing or forward facing restraint that has a built-in harness. Further, a child aged four to five years, must be “restrained in a properly fastened and adjusted forward-facing child restraint that has a built-in harness or an approved booster seat that is properly positioned and fastened”.

The penalty for breaching this law is $2,000. The only excuses allowed by this Bill are if the child has a medical certificate advising against such restraint and/or if there is only one row of seats in the vehicle. The Bill proposes penalties for a range of other traffic offences.

taken from this article
http://www.newsday.co.tt/politics/0,115583.html

[pete]

I would put the front facing seat by the rear passenger side door and the rear facing seat in the middle.

[Premchand1976]

Thanks all. Appreciated

[Cross Blood]

I would put the front facing seat by the rear passenger side door and the rear facing seat in the middle.

x2

Bags could go on the floor or the front passenger seat.

[Rainman]

No front passenger airbag? Thats pretty shiddy

[crazybalhead]

I do what Pete says.


No need for anyone else in the back though. Not even when they jess born.

[Halfbreed07]

No front passenger airbag? Thats pretty shiddy

Raj Spaceships simply dont need them

[RBphoto]

Many European cars, my shiddy Peugeot included, have a passenger airbag defeat mechanism. I see many people putting the rear facing infant seat in the front (in these European cars). I think Mercedes actually has latches for that. It is ok to have the rear facing in the middle and the forward facing on the left side. The wife can sit in front. Since the babies are looking at each other, they will keep each other company and one will alert you if the other has stopped breathing.

[Rainman]

Many European cars, my shiddy Peugeot included, have a passenger airbag defeat mechanism. I see many people putting the rear facing infant seat in the front (in these European cars). I think Mercedes actually has latches for that. It is ok to have the rear facing in the middle and the forward facing on the left side. The wife can sit in front. Since the babies are looking at each other, they will keep each other company and one will alert you if the other has stopped breathing.

Well perhaps your comprehension skills are superior to mine, but to me OP says that there isn't an airbag, meaning: lack of, non-existent, not there, eh dey, etc.....ad nauseam


And despite what those RORO c180 owners are doing the safest place for a child in a vehicle is in the rear.

[pete]

The law says only rear seats unless the vehicle only has front seats (trucks, single cab pickups, sports cars I guess)

[Premchand1976]

Back seat for them both then .....lol

[trishala]

But this is for private vehicles

What is the law states when it applies to "H" and "T" vehicle and car seats ?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Taxis should have child seats installed - can't see why the law would suggest it for private cars and not H cars.

anyway
"A study published in Pediatrics, showed for children newborn to 3 years old sitting in the center rear seat is 43% safer than sitting on the side in the back."