can you have your child sit infront with a booster seat?
Monday, March 8th, 2010 at
4:02 pm
i live in indiana and our law states that children under 7yrs old must be in a booster seat, but is that for seating only for in the back, can you put your child in booster seat in the front/passenger seat?
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To sit in the passenger seat the child is supposed to be 12 years old. It actually says it on the passenger side airbag warning.
Yes each state has different laws, but even though that is correct if you put your child in the front seat and the child gets injured or killed during an accident the auto company nor anyone else but the driver will be held liable for those injuries or death, as the airbag warning tells you what could happen.
Your car is telling you how to be safe. Why would you not want to fallow that? There is a reason for those warnings.
No you cant put the child in the front.
No! If you are in an accident and the air bag deploys you run a huge risk of killing that child. Read your warnings on your vehicle. Children need to be in the back seat until they are AT LEAST 12.
You need to research your state laws carefully. In most states there are provisions for children sitting in the front seat if all the rear seats are already taken up by children under 12. All the people that are telling you that you can’t and that’s it’s against the law are wrong. True it’s not recommended but lawmakers realize that not everyone who has children can go out and buy an SUV when all the back seats get full. Check out this link – it specifies in the first paragraph that children in Indiana are not required to ride in the back seat by law, however, please read the actual code before you take this as gospel.
http://babyproducts.about.com/od/statecarseatlaws/qt/indianacps.htm