What is side impact protection in car seat?
What is side impact protection in car seat?
All our car seats are fitted with side-impact protection technology. The parts of the car seat that cradle your child’s head are reinforced with layers of EPS and foam material. This absorbs the impact of side and rear crashes and rebounds in frontal crashes. This all helps to prevent serious head trauma.
Are all car seats side impact tested?
“As a result of NHTSA’s inaction, there currently is no government standard for side-impact testing in the United States for any child restraint system,” the state attorneys general wrote.
How long can baby use Britax car seat?
Infant car seats have a service life of 6 years. Convertible car seats generally have a service life of 7 years. ClickTight Convertible car seats have a service life of 10 years. Harness-2-Booster seats have a service life of 9 years.
How important is side impact protection?
This absorbs the impact of side and rear crashes and rebounds in frontal crashes. It also distributes the force of the crash away from your child’s body. This all helps to prevent serious head trauma.
How effective are side impact bars?
Side impact bars increase the rigidity of the doors and distribute the energy in the event of a side-on crash. Large door overlaps with the columns increases the deformation strength. The forces that occur in the event of a crash can therefore be better absorbed into the floor and the roof.
How does linear side-impact protection work?
Side protectors are an effective safety measure and embedded in the CYBEX safety principles. Whether rear or forward-facing, thanks to the L.S.P. (Linear Side-impact Protection) the force of a side-impact collision is absorbed in a linear series of reactions together with the energy absorbing shell of the seat.
What are I size car seats?
What is i-Size? i-Size is a new European-wide car seat regulation (the first phase of a safety standard called R129), which aims to make car seats safer. It’s designed to keep children rear-facing for longer, provide better side impact protection and make car seats easier to fit correctly.
What is the safest Britax infant car seat?
B-Safe Ultra
After two months of testing and a thorough debrief, our team picked the Britax – B-Safe Ultra as the best infant car seat. Easy-to-use installation and harness adjustment features make this a great seat to work with and you get extra installation flexibility with European-style shoulder belt routing.
Is the Britax Evolva 123 Isofix?
The new EVOLVA 1-2-3 SL SICT comes with the Soft-Latch ISOFIX installation system that connects the seat directly to the car for superior safety performance. Altogether, it adds up to years of on-the-road comfort and safety.
What does soft Latch Isofix mean?
Fitting the Evolva is not straightforward, because it doesn’t use traditional, solid arms to mount to a car’s secure Isofix points. Instead, it has what Britax refers to as ‘Soft Latch’, which uses webbing straps with latching devices on their ends to secure the seat in place.
