Rear Facing vs. Forward Facing Crash Test

Short video from Folksam showing the huge difference between forward facing and rear facing. Notice how the rear facing child handle the crash very well while the forward facing child is subject to huge stress on neck and spine area.

Folksam is a Swedish insurnce company which is active in car seat reserach

Category:

Education

Tags:

• car seat
• rear facing
• forward facing
• Folksam

[melbts83]

To better compare the two, both should have a harness on, not ff with seatbelt and rf with 5 point harness.

[1Adventuredad]

@lilyschey : Deactivating the airbag is as easy as pushing a button on the dashboard or on the side of the dashboard. If you can start the car and turn on the lights you can also easily deactivate the airbag. There is no skill or complicated things involved.

[lilyschey]

@1Adventuredad I know people who didn't even KNOW their car could disable it, and I myself, will admit that I don't know how to disable the front air bag. But, I'm not worried since I would never put a child up front. But still, the problem is people don't know how to MANUALLY disable the front air bag. I can change a tire, but don't ask me about disabling an air bag. I was just never shown, so how could I know.

[1Adventuredad]

Airbag is always deactivated when using front seat!!!!!!

[pgpprotector]

Next they need the same video with that air bag deploying.

[MegaBabyfun]

Very good we need more videos like this to educate the public on why ERF (extended rear facing) is so important!!! Rear face as long as you can people! Just say no to baby decapitation!!