How To Seat Your Child In A Vehicle Which Has No Rear Seats

Where should my child sit in a vehicle that has no rear seats?

Well, the first thing is to decide whether it's important for your child to ride in this vehicle. If you do have a vehicle that has no back seat, that vehicle will come with some system for disabling the airbag. If it does not, you can apply to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for permission to have your airbag disconnected. Never put a rear-facing child in a seat in front of a front passenger airbag. That is almost certainly going to be instant brain death. What happens is, as always happens in a collision, everything moves towards the point of impact, so the safety seat is moving toward the front. Passenger airbags only deploy in frontal crashes, so you know that the seat is going to be going toward the front of the vehicle, as the airbag comes out at anywhere from 100 to 200 miles per hour. When it slams into the back of the child restraint, the children are usually brain-dead from the force of the impact.