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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back seat til 13. That front passenger seat is statistically the seat of death. [/quote]

So then why do you allow it at 13?[/quote]

Because the stats flip around age 13 or so. And the backseat becomes more dangerous for adults. Fewer wear seat belts in the back and most cars don't have seat belt pretensioners.

All cars are getting safer now with collision avoidancee technology rather than relying on collision worthiness.  But I'd still place passengers in the safest seats available. [/quote]

You are extrapolating and interpreting far more than one can reasonably do with the available data, and you are confusing correlation with causation, a common fallacy. If adults in the back are choosing not to wear seatbelts, that doesn't make the back seat more dangerous for adults. [/quote]

It also has to do with the lack of seat belt pretensioners in the back seat. And I know the difference between correlation and causation.  It's irrelevant since stats are all we have to go by. There is no harm in choosing the statistically safer seat for passengers. [/quote]

If that's what you believed, you would never have anyone sit in the front passenger seat. DH would drive, and you would ride in the back on date night.[/quote]
The back seat is only safer for certain riders -- the young, elderly and pregnant. Sometimes even riders in one of these categories MUST sit in front but otherwise why risk it?[/quote]

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