Car Seats, Classic or Dud?

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Minimum requirement, be four foot five or older than 12.

See, Amber, right, is eight. And four foot seven inches tall. Therefore does not need one. Alice (6) is four foot three so will.

Are there loads of small twelve year olds? Or is Amber dead tall?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm delighted that we've got to buy another fucking car seat. And no doubt Joel will be delighted to have to sit in one.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, maybe the poliss should make an effort to actually make all the stupid bastards I see every day who don't even put a seatbelt on their children conform to the law first.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

So is it less than four foot five AND under 12, or less than four foot five OR under 12? I keep reading articles and adverts about this law and I still don't understand it.

Will there be exemptions for families who don't own a car but occasionally travel with their kids in the cars of relatives/friends, I wonder?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

And.

If yr over 12 or over 4 ft 5, yr OK.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Charlie had 5cm to grow when I found out about the new law in June.

Alex is clear (but not by much), but she isn't the shortest in her class. She starts High School on Monday, which means there will be kids being dropped off still having to use baby seats.

TOUGH ON BULLYING, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF BULLYING. GOOD JOB YOU DON'T GIVE BULLIES A REASON TO PICK ON KIDS THEN, ISN'T IT.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think a sizeable portion of the Cabinet are all too familiar with being bullied as children.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Or in the case of Prescott and Cunningham, being bullies as children.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Exemption if there are three children but only room for two car seats

I knew there was a reason we were having another child!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

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.
Paul, Blackburn

I don't think Paul, Blackburn has thought this through.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

we have this in a lot of the states, too. Missouri's cuts off at 8/80 lbs/4'9" and up though.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Will there be exemptions for families who don't own a car but occasionally travel with their kids in the cars of relatives/friends, I wonder?

the police on tv were saying that they're being advised to use common sense and the idea isn't to nick loads of people who don't have carseats but to kind of be a bit more "dude seriously get one" like around schools and stuff and if they don't then they might do something that kind of thing.

i hear that not being at the right height would render the seatbelts a bit useless or something?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

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