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From next month, many children who thought they had grown out of sitting in child car seats will have to go back into them, as new rules come into force in the UK.

 

From 18 September, children up to the age of 12, or up to the height of 135 cm, will have to use safety seats - which could mean that youngsters who have spent several years in adult seats will now need to return to using child seats.

 

Safety campaigners and motorists' organisations have all welcomed the changes - which the Department for Transport says will reduce the number of child casualties in traffic accidents by about 2,000 per year. But there are serious concerns that families are not receiving adequate information about what seats they will need and how the new regulations will operate. And failure to comply will mean court fines up to £500.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5279142.stm?ls

 

Any short 11 year-old brits here? Child car seats for you!

 

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Ahahaha:

 

Oh no, my 8 year old daughter was right and I ignored her advice! She told me about this a few months ago and I told her it was rubbish! This is the first 'official' information I have seen on this. I have no problem with safety for my child, so will happily comply, but the message could have been delivered in a far better organised fashion. Got to agree with Dean in Bern though. If this is a safety issue, and is enshrined in the law, then the compulsion should be on the manufacturers to include proper safty seats as part of the standard vehicle build, rather than being sold as expensive options afterwards. £20 cushions are just not good enough in an accident, you need the proper safety equipment fitted at the time of manufacture.

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haha, I sort of wish they had that here. My 12 year old neighbor is about 5'6", and weighs ~180 lbs. He'd look like some sort of massive blubbering mutant-baby in a booster chair.

 

edit: wait, he might be taller than 135 cm. Well, it'd still be funny as hell.

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Oh my god, that is so embarassing. I know that would ruin my pride if I was that little. Luckily i was that little when i was 8. Man, comin' to Middle School like that would be so demoting and embarassing, it would ruin my pride for sure.

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What seems silly is that all these "family cars" apparently have seatbelts that are no use for kids under 12.. gotta be a strange family they are designed for. You'd think that either the seatbelts would be ajustable for small people.. or there would be a built in way to raise the back seat so that they would work for kids.

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The young'uns won't go flying through the windscreen if you put 'em in the boot. Plus, you can't hear them whining 'are we there yet?' ;)

 

Seriously though, it's fair enough. If it saves lives, that's the important bit.

I'm old enough to remember when wearing a seatbelt wasn't compulsory in the UK. Seems ridiculous now :rolleyes:

 

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Man, it's got to suck for a family who has like 3 children. You could just pile them all in and hit the road. Not now, you gotta grab the 20lbs seats and secure them and get all the kids into them. Gotta suck having such huge things in the car, little baby seats are already hard enough, but damn.

 

Also, how is having a kid sit 4 inches higher going to keep them from going all Road-art on the way to football practice?

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Because the seatbelt isn't to high over their heads perhaps?
Naw, just get their head touching the belt and they should be fine. :xp:

 

Make some pretty nasty crashes.

 

Also, I don't know many 11 yearolds but 135cm is about 4'5"... that sounds pretty short to me. My sister is considered short and at 12 she was around 4'11".

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Helmets do a huge deal to save your life. As do seat belts, which is why it's prohibited in so many places to not wear one. Same with baby seats. I don't see why bikers don't use baby-seats, helmets, seat-belts, and training-wheels, but maybe that's just me.

 

People who drive cars have to wear seat belts but bikers don't have to wear helmets. It's f***ing insane.
Bikers aren't too bright anyway:p.

 

Seriously, if they're given a choice and choose not to wear one, they can't go moaning when they're killed or paralysed for the lack of it.
Yeah, seriously, whining about getting paralyzed? Now I've heard it all [/perhaps slightly evil sarcasm:D].

 

PS: Has anyone else ever thought of why all the people whining about having to wear seat-belts in cars never utters a word about having to wear them on airplanes, even though planes are safer by a long way:confused:?

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