Accessed October 21, Compare the best child safety products. Britax Highpoint. Gabb Z2. TickTalk 4. Bell Sidetrack Child Helmet. Written by. Celeste has dedicated her decade-long career to reporting and reviews that help people make well-informed decisions.
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She continues to report on local news as a volunteer with the community paper. Read More. Recent Articles. Wireless home security systems are more popular than ever. The best pet-friendly home security systems keep your furry friends happy and safe with advanced No Comments. Stay Safe! Subscribe to SafeWise for updates on safety news, product releases, and deals! All rights reserved. Back To Top. We always got the answer of liability. If the dealer will not install it as an option, then you are ultimately responsible for that liability, and heaven forbid if your insurance co.
We just could not justify having to accept that liability if something were to happen. My '01 Jetta had the lapbelt also, not shoulder belt. I don't see your point. So you're saying it's differnt to use the anchor points to attach a car seat versus direct wrap around someone's waist?
Antsrcool Vendor. Im pretty sure hes saying that if VW didnt put it there and there are no kits to add one. Then that is not a legal seat. In the event of a wreck and the belt failed or even if the person in the undesired seat was seriously hurt there would be full liability on you. Even if it wasnt legal im sure your heart would be in more pain. Not to open up the "front seat" can'o'worms.. Britax booster seat, seat belt, air bag off. If anyone wants to shout dangerous, back up your stats first.
Ya, some states ban it, but thats just what lawmakers do when ignorance is the majority to help prevent people from hurting themselves.. Oh gosh.. I am going to get another "expert" opinion about the third seat belt. As an engineer, I do not see any apparent issues with this. There are lots of vehicles with no seat belts that were later retrofitted with the seat belts, that are safe, or even safer than the original manufacturer's equipment.
I will see if I can safely add a reinforcement plate to the floor, drill, then groove the thread on it so that I can add the correct bolts for the middle seats, rather than relying on the anchor hooks. This would probably be enough to stop you flying about in a crash but the belt and attachments were not the problem.
The actual seat is only made of a thin ply so if you were in a crash there is a good chance that the forces would pull you down, through the seat.
Not the best set up. So as well as the belts being attached strongly the seats also have to be strong to take some incredible forces exerted during a crash. Yes, you do. The front seats driver and passenger must have seatbelts and in the UK you must wear them.
In the rear of the motorhome, things are a little bit hazier. Do you actually have to wear a seatbelt in the rear of a motorhome? In the UK you do have to wear a seatbelt in the back of a motorhome if there are seat belts fitted. If there are no seatbelt then there is no legal requirement to wear a belt. This is where it gets to be a bit of a grey area. If you have a passenger in the back who is not wearing a seatbelt the police could stop you and do you for endangering others in the vehicle.
If you are in a crash at 60mph and there is someone or more than one in the motorhome who is not belted in they will probably take out one or both of the front passengers as they fly through the windscreen.
You have to weigh up family and friends lives with the cost of getting belts fitted — how much is your family worth? To be safe everyone in the motorhome should have some sort of seatbelt. There are a few different types of passenger restraints available in motorhomes.
The three-point seat belt is the most common type of seatbelt in the UK and you will find them in every car since the s.
They have a lap belt portion and a belt going across your shoulder just as you have in your car. These are the best type of seat belt to have and are able to stop people flying about in a crash, reducing injury to the person wearing the belt and others in the motorhome.
The Lap Belt- this is fitted in a lot of motorhomes in the rear. You only require two strong points to fit them. They tend to be very easy to fit. The good thing about the lap belts is they stop people from flying about. The negative is that you can really injure yourself if you are in a crash with only a lap belt. Internal and spinal injuries are common when using a lap belt in a crash.
Obviously the faster the crash the more chance of injury there will be. It is illegal in the UK to have an unrestrained animal pet in a vehicle. They have to be strapped in. You can get specific restraints for your pet to keep them safe, a harness is generally used. A pet jumping around in a motorhome or car is a distraction for the driver and if there is a crash there is a high possibility of the pet or being injured or injuring other passengers if it is not suitably restrained.
Worth considering if you want to take your best friend on holiday with you. There are loads of restraints for pets to choose from and they are not expensive. On a side facing seat — bench type there is only the option of using a lap belt. The three-point belt will not work with the side facing seats. As discussed above a lap belt is not great and only really stops the injury of other passengers. Although better than nothing, a lap belt on a side facing seat could do a lot of damage to the person using it.
It is not illegal to add a seatbelt to a motorhome. The problem is getting that seatbelt strong enough to be able to take the forces exerted during a crash. Seat belt webbing is strong enough to hold a couple of tonnes. The problem is not the actual seat belt but what you attach that seat belt on to. If you have any belts in the back ask yourself if the object the belt is fitted to can take a couple of tones force.
Dealing with these forces is why manufacturers have seatbelts built into the actual chassis of the vehicle. The seat belts are not an afterthought, they are designed into the structure of the vehicle and this allows them to take the forces exerted in a crash crash. To retrofit a seat belt it is very difficult to get that strength. This is where we run into problems. I have seen attempts to fit seat belts by just screwing into a plywood wall, for the shoulder fitting. This just gives the illusion of safety, the first sign of a crash that belt or the whole wall will come flying off along with you.
As well as getting a strong structure to connect to there are the actual seats to consider as well — can they take the forces of a crash when the passenger is strapped onto that seat? The only way to know this for sure is to be in a crash and if you are wrong it is too late. We have looked at many different options for fitting belts into our motorhome.
One of them is to have a structure built that will allow three-point belts to be fitted and hold the passengers easily in place.
This seemed like a good idea but its very expensive and you still have the problem in our motorhome at least of weak seats. The best method I have found so far for the fitting of a seatbelt so far is to buy a crash rated seat with the seat belt fitted into the seat. So you buy a seat with the seatbelt already incorporated into the seat. All you have to do is bolt it down securely to the chassis.
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