Ensuring child safety Editor's note: The following is the latest in a series of weekly auto safety tips provided by premium carmaker M...
Ensuring child safety
Editor's note: The following is the latest in a series of weekly auto safety tips provided by premium carmaker Mercedes-Benz: It can be a joy for parents to bring their children out on a road trip. For a safe and sound ride, please consider the answer to a common question before settling your child in the car: Should you allow your child to sit in the front seat? Children are often allowed to sit in the front seat because they would then be within easy reach for parents who are behind the steering wheel. Even if the child is wearing a seatbelt or secured in a child restraint, sitting in the front seat has proven to be unsafe, no matter how short the drive.
If a child is left improperly restrained in the front seat, he or she can be thrown against the dashboard when a car brakes too hard suddenly. And since children usually sit at a lower height than adults, they can be subject to head and neck injuries when airbags, which usually open at high speeds, are deployed. During a frontal collision, a child seated in the back seat has a higher chance of avoiding shards of glass from the windshield or debris from crashed objects, and is also better protected from sustaining back injury from the impact of the accident. Mercedes-Benz child seats are designed to be as safe as the vehicle itself. These exceed current regulations and provide more protection because its seating concept offers families the versatility they are looking for.
Ensuring child safety
Editor's note: The following is the latest in a series of weekly auto safety tips provided by premium carmaker Mercedes-Benz:
It can be a joy for parents to bring their children out on a road trip. For a safe and sound ride, please consider the answer to a common question before settling your child in the car:
Should you allow your child to sit in the front seat?
Children are often allowed to sit in the front seat because they would then be within easy reach for parents who are behind the steering wheel.
Even if the child is wearing a seatbelt or secured in a child restraint, sitting in the front seat has proven to be unsafe, no matter how short the drive.
If a child is left improperly restrained in the front seat, he or she can be thrown against the dashboard when a car brakes too hard suddenly.
And since children usually sit at a lower height than adults, they can be subject to head and neck injuries when airbags, which usually open at high speeds, are deployed.
During a frontal collision, a child seated in the back seat has a higher chance of avoiding shards of glass from the windshield or debris from crashed objects, and is also better protected from sustaining back injury from the impact of the accident.
Mercedes-Benz child seats are designed to be as safe as the vehicle itself. These exceed current regulations and provide more protection because its seating concept offers families the versatility they are looking for.
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