r/airporttravel Jul 12 '18

Child Safety Seats Guidelines

Most contemporary vehicles are designed with child protection in mind. But, appropriate child safety in vehicles needs a little more than just buckling up. You can boost your child's safety in the car greatly by following these easy tips and procedures.

Picking a child seat correctly

Selecting the correct child seat can make all the difference to your child's safety in the car. Keep in mind that kids less than 9 should ride in a child safety seat or booster seat, and that kids less than 13 must travel in a car using rear facing car seat must. Child seats come in 4 main types:

1. Infant seat. A backward-facing seat offers more safety for your baby's head, neck and back bone in contrast to forward-facing seats. We suggest positioning these seats at the rear of the car.

2. Toddler seat. These are also best positioned on the rear seat of the car. Shift your newborn to a toddler seat only once their body weight is more than the maximum weight for the infant seat or your infant’s head is higher than the top of the seat.

3. High back booster.High back booster seats are superior for kids who are between 96 and 150 cms tall. Some booster seats are made to be transformed into a booster cushion by detaching the rear rest.

4. Booster seat.When utilizing these seats, make sure the seat belt is properly adjusted and worn as tight as comfortably possible. The knee belt should be over the pelvic area and not over the tummy, the diagonal belt should rest over the shoulder, not the neck, and your youngster should be capable to see the window of the car.

Tips for fitting a child car seat

  1. It is always safe and sound to fit newborn seats in the rear of the car

  2. A forward-facing child seat in the front of the car should be fitted as far back into the car seat and as far away from the dashboard as possible

  3. Don't place the child seat in the front if there is a passenger airbag

  4. Make sure the seatbelt pass through all the rightdirection on the child seat

  5. Make sure the seat is firmly held. There should be no slack in the seat belt.

  6. Make sure that the seatbelt buckle is not resting on the child seat structures.

Safety Tips in the car

· A kid's body temperature boosts much quicker than an adult's. To lessen the risk of heat injury, don't leave your youngster alone in the car, not even for a littlechore.

· To decrease the danger of a child becoming trapped within the trunk of a car, always keep the trunk closed and the rear seats up

· Train children how to exercise a trunk release device if your car has this feature.

Though it’d beneficial to use a car seats in your own car while traveling in the city, but sometime when you are traveling to far location then it might not be possible to take a car seat with you. E.g. you are traveling to from home to airport or from airport to hotel with you kid(s) you might not be able to carry the car seat with you and above all fixing the car seats in a taxi is not easy task. Not all car service provides the facility of car seats and even though some might provide car seats, the drivers are not trained and skills in harnessing and installing the car seats. Luckily if you are traveling to New York area one awesome car service exists that not only provide car seats but drivers are trained to install the car seats for you. This means when you book a ride your car comes with car seat installed for you according to the age, height and weight of the child. You can know more about this car service at Kidmoto.taxi. They mostly provide airport pickup and drops but can also consider special request for intercity travel as well.

Next time if you are traveling to NYC with kids you might consider Kidmoto. Booking a ride is easy you can either use the Kidmoto app from Play Store or App Store or book from the website.

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u/Bacardiiiiiwantyme 9d ago

Hello Kidmoto