Rear-Facing Down Under

Our three year old daughter was killed in a car accident on 13 April 2006. A truck crossed over ...

NeuRA's Prof Lynne Bilston features in this Today Tonight report by Laura Sparks on airbag ...

Kidsafe Australia with the support of NRMA Insurance and SGIO have developed the 'Make ...

New Australian road rules require that all children from birth to 7 years must be seated in a ...

Vehicule lap belt crash test w_ child dummy-Extreme .... Simulation of 6-year-old Child in ...

Vehicule Solution X-fix Booster Crash Test_ Back versus Backless- ... Voiture Crash Test ...

Simulated crash tests show the importance of proper child restraint installation. Most parents ...

Demonstrates the lap belt vs. lap/shoulder system for booster seats.

... the consequences of a child slipping his harness in the event of a frontal impact at 30 mph. Visit ...

Rear-facing in the car is FIVE times safer than forward-facing for kids under the age of 4 ...

Children have poorly developed fragile and flexible neck muscles. When a forward-facing child's heavy head is thrust forward in a crash, the child suffers an enormous amount of stress on neck. If the spinal cord stretches too far in a crash (a mere 6mm) the child may suffer paralysis or death. The young child's cervical vertebrae are not strong enough to protect the spinal cord adequately when forward-facing in a frontal crash. As an example, an average three-year-olds head weighs on average 2.7kg, which means that in an accident at only 50km/h the head weighs 270 kilos! In the event of an impact using a rear-facing child seat the whole of the child's back takes the impact instead of only where the harness touches the body, consequently protecting the much more vulnerable neck, head and spine. The risk of serious injury or fatality has been shown to be five times less while travelling rear-facing.

The many benefits of rear facing car seats, narrated by a grandfather, of a true accident involving his 18 mo old grandson who suffered a broken neck while in a front facing car seat.