Question on baby safety

[SuffolkD at aol.com]

A tight belt, to "anchor" the child seat, will keep it in place.  While this 
may not go with the thought: that some slack would help 
deceleration................It will keep the baby seat from leaning in 
corners......................BTDT

While I'd go for the center of the rear seat, most cars don't provide 
adequate three point anchoring................only have some current models started 
addressing this.
-Scott by BOSTON

> From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
> 
> At 1:51 PM -0400 4/13/04, Brendan wrote:
> >  > Ok, back to the question at hand.  My wife and I currently own a Toyota
> >>  Echo.  Nice car, good on the gas, but a car seat will not work right in 
> the
> >>  rear seat.  The belt will not tighten enough, and because of that the 
> wife
> >>  has to get rid of it to get something safer (she wants an Escape for
> >>  herself).
> >
> >Safer? What do you mean?
> >So, up until now, you didn't mind getting paralyzed, so you drove something
> >unsafe? I'm confused. Most cars are safe. A child is actually more likely to
> >survive an accident, because they are smaller, lighter and more flexbile, so
> >I would worry more about the adults than the children. They will do fine.
> 
> Not to mention, children in car seats are usually in the safest place 
> in the car- dead center.  They're also strapped in to what is 
> essentially a 5-point harness.
> 
> What I've never quite understood was the emphasis on getting the seat 
> as tightly belted in as possible...everything I learned in physics 
> contradicts that advice.
> 
>