A Car Seat or Booster Seat is a Must When Traveling With Children...
If you are on vacation with a child and plan on doing any driving, you will need to rent or buy a child booster seat or child safety seat that is legal for the area you are vacationing in... renting your child safety or booster seat is the best.
Remember, the safest way for children to travel in a vehicle is in a child seat or child restraint system that is suitable for their weight and size.
Fun and More Child Product Rentals, is strategically located on Anna Maria Island to serve Anna Maria City, Bradenton and Holmes Beach, and even Longboat Key and the Siesta Key areas.
Carrying your Child Safely in a Vehicle
It is true that in a 30 mph car crash, an unrestrained child would be thrown forward with a force 30 to 60 times their own body weight.
The child and other occupants of the vehicle would likely endure serious injury, possibly life threatening, as a result of the child being thrown about inside the interior of the vehicle.
The unrestrained child is also likely to be ejected from the car through one of the windows.
If you think it safe to carry your small child on your lap, forget it. In a crash, the child could be crushed between your body and part of the car's interior. Even if you are using a seat belt, the child would be torn from your arms. It is not possible to hold onto them, no matter how hard you try.
It is also dangerous to put a seat belt around yourself and a child (or around two children).
The safest way for children to travel in a vehicle is in a child seat or child restraint system that is suitable for their weight and size.
Child Restraining System Fit
You child restraining system must fit your child properly in order to them in their seat. A proper fitting child restraint will prevent them from being thrown about inside, or ejected from, the vehicle. It will also absorbs some of the impact force, reducing the risk, or severity, of injury in the in a crash.
In order for child restraints to be effective, they must be fitted and used correctly. Surveys have consistently shown that a high proportion of child restraints are incorrectly fitted, usually for one or more of the following reasons...
- Seat belt is too loose
- Seat belt is not routed through the child seat correctly
- Buckle crunch (buckle resting against part of the child seat's frame, which means that in a crash it might break or snap open)
- Handle on baby seat is not positioned properly
- Child seat is not compatible with the particular model of vehicle
- Child seat is old and in bad condition
- Child is too large or too small for the seat being used
Booster Seat Rentals
By the time children weigh 15 - 25 kgs (33 - 55 lbs) (usually about 4 to 6 years old) they are ready to use a booster seat when traveling in a vehicle. With a booster seat, the adult seat belt will go around the child and the seat, so it is extremely important that the seat belt is correctly adjusted.
The basic points to note are...
- Seat belt should be worn as tight as possible
- Lap belt should go over the pelvic region (from hip-bone to hip-bone), not the stomach
- Diagonal strap should rest over the shoulder, not the neck
Information regarding booster seats, car seats and child restraining systems has been provided courtesy of the good folks at www.FunandMoreRentals.com.
If its Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key or Siesta Key you are going to, then Fun and More Vacation Supply Rentals makes it easy as one... two... three!
Fun and More Baby and Child Vacation Rentals has everything you could even imagine needed on your vacation. From baby cribs and child safety seats, to bike and kayak rentals.
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Baby seats are pretty safe as long as they on the backseat. The back seat offer more protection than front seat!
Posted by: car rental south africa | December 15, 2009 at 05:25 AM
It's a wise thing to do for the fact that you don't have to luck the seat around with you from home everywhere you go. It also saves the pain of learning and being in compliance with the laws.
Posted by: Ajlouny | April 26, 2009 at 10:03 PM