Best place for car seat?

mrsnala · January 2013

I know this has been asked, and I looked but couldn't find it, but where in the car are you putting your car seat? (Only one child).

mistresscox · January 2013

The middle seat is best. That way if you are hit from either side the carseat still hopefully will not be touched. If you have 3 rows of seating (like a van) I'm not sure which row.

smwiggle · January 2013

Your car manual will normally tell you the best place to put the car seat. Safest will either be middle seat or right behind the driver's side.

shellylovelee · January 2013

smwiggle:
Your car manual will normally tell you the best place to put the car seat. Safest will either be middle seat or right behind the driver's side.

Safest: middle

Next: behind driver

Last: behind passenger

this decaf life · January 2013

The middle is best but doesn't work at securely in a lot of cars. I have a Rav4 and it's not the best placement so it went behind the driver's seat.

nycitygirl1 · January 2013

Middle of the backseat.

runlong3 · January 2013

Since we have side airbags in the car we will be using most of the time with LO, we really wanted to put our car seat in the middle. Our car manual says that you can't use the LATCH system in the middle seat, so we just belted the base in instead. (Both are equally safe, the latch system was just designed to be easier.) We still have 1"+ between the back of the front seats and the car seat in the middle position, so we're able to do this.

I think a lot of people forget about the extra room between the front seat and the car seat, so if you can't/don't want to put the car seat in the middle, and opt for the next best place behind the driver, make sure they're not butted up against each other when the tallest driver has the front seat adjusted appropriately.

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