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Are modern child seats safe?

Have the Health and Safety people fallen asleep as I regard the current children’s car safety seats as a fob and next to useless. To comply with the law I have just purchased a child's car safety seat to allow me to transport my grandson and I am appalled at the standard of construction and retention by the use of standard safety belts. In the good old days the seat had to be bolted in place and had the equivalent of a racing harness to hold the child in place. I would urge that the standards be upgraded so that the product is of proper use and not a fob to society.

Asked on 16 March 2013 by BE, Reading

Answered by Honest John
I agree. I have always found car seatbelts completely unsuitable for retaining child seats and always used separate straps. But all modern cars have had ISOFIX tethers for at least the past five years.
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