Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:29:44 GMT From: th <someguynospamwhere.se> Subject: Re: Baby saftey seat and airbags
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. -- th