Children up to the age of 6 months must use a rear-facing child car seat. Children aged between 6 and 12 months must use either a rear-facing child car seat or a forward-facing child car seat with an inbuilt harness. Children aged over 12 month must use a booster seat or wear a properly adjusted and fastened seatbelt …
Child Passenger Safety Laws help make sure that your child is as secure as possible when riding in the car. Crashes are the leading cause of death for children over the age of two. But many of these deaths can be prevented by following.
Five-step test
The five-step test can help assess whether your child is big enough to be safely restrained by seatbelt. The child should be able to:
- Sit all the back against the seat back
- Behind their knees comfortably over the front edge of the vehicle seat
- Sit with the sassh belt across their mid-shoulder
- Sit with the lap belt across the top of their thighs
- Stay seated in this position for the whole trip
Find more information about moving your child to the next type of child carseat, or from a booster seat an adult seatbelt, as well as answers to other commonquestions on the Child Car Seat website
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