Submitted on Thursday 22nd October 2015
Rejected on Sunday 1st November 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Keep children rear facing till age 4
Rear facing a child till age four, or as long as possible, is 5x safer than forward facing.
The British Medical Journal published a report on 11th June 2009 stating that rear facing seats are safer than forward facing seats for children under 4 years or age.
In Sweden between July 2006 and November 2007 not one child under the age of six was killed in a car crash. Children in Sweden sit rear facing until the age of four under the car seat safety standard LAW.
A child’s neck only needs to stretch more than a quarter of an inch before snapping/breaking.
During a frontal collision, in a forwards facing car seat, the child is flung forward. As the child's head flung/stretched forward taking on 300kg of loading within the neck at just 30mph.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to ask for a specific action from the Government or Parliament. For example, you could consider starting a petition asking Parliament change the law to require rear-facing car seats for under-4s.
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