Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:41:51 -0400 From: Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Baby saftey seat and airbags
th wrote: > Saab Guy wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:16:59 -0400 >> "gw" <no.spamnospam.com> wrote: >> >> >>> "Keith" <keith.gatfordnospampi.nospam.net> wrote in message >>> news:d9s701$b6f$1nospam-news1.kolumbus.fi... >>> >>>> My 2001 9-3 is not fitted with a passanger front air bag but it does >>>> have >>> >>> >>> a >>> >>>> side airbag on both sides. I am aware that the baby seat should not be >>>> placed on the front seat if an airbag is active, but does that also >>> >>> >>> include >>> >>>> side airbags? If so, is the dealer able to deactivate the passanger >>>> side >>>> airbag? >>>> >>>> thanks, Keith >>>> >>>> >>> >>> A baby seat should not be placed in the front seat of any 4-seat car, >>> airbag >>> or not. If there is a rear seat, it should go there. The only >>> exception is >>> 2-seat vehicles, such as pickup trucks. These will have a disable >>> function >>> for the passenger bag. >>> >>> Much higher survival potential in the rear. >>> >>> >> >> >> Exactly GW. >> >> A child seat should ALWAYS be in the rear, and NOT the center rear >> because of the "projectile" possibility, either the REAR pass or >> driver seat ONLY. >> > If the child seat is located in the rear seat the best location is > actually in the centre, because there you have the best protection from > side impacts. With modern child seats, at least the ones we've had in > Sweden for the past 15 years, there is no "projectile" effect as they > are so tightly coupled to the seat. > > The Saab designers (as well as the Volvo designers) have really adopted > the Swedish traffic safety research and made the 9-5 the safest car in > the world in real traffic accidents. I hope that also some of the > Swedish ideas about child seating and child safety in cars (we have the > lowest car accident infant mortality in the world) would be adopted by > the rest of the society, saving the lives of many children. > All this fuss, to what end? We've got too many damn babies already in this world. What's the big deal about protecting a few more of them? Up on the roof rack!, I say... I'm sure I saw a car seat attachment listed in the Thule catalog... -Fred W
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