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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You gotta have some faith and confidence people! Of course RF is limiting them. Who faces backward in a seat normally? They can see out the window but they can't see you. There's no interaction. We FF at 12M. He was so much happier. I cannot imagine keeping a child RF until 4 yrs old sorry. What happens if you get rear ended? [/quote]

If you get rear-ended, you are most likely either stopped or traveling at low speed. [/quote]

As I noted above the two rear ended accidents I know of resulted in one RF child dying and the other RF child being being permanently brain damaged. Being stopped or traveling low speed doesn't necessarily protect a RF child. [/quote]

No, you are right it does not. But frontal crashes account for 74% of severe car accidents and rear crashes only account for 4%. Rear end crashes also provide a lot more ride down time (the length of time it takes for the body to come to a complete stop). The longer the ride down time the less safer the person (typically).

So, yes you can be severely injured in a rear end crash. However, the chances are much more likely that you will be injured in a front end crash. And while your stories are sad and horrible they alone do not make good policy. I have a friend whose car flew off a cliff and the only reason he survived was becuase he wasn't wearing his seatbelt and was thrown free of the car (it was a convertible). But I would by no means recommend that people go without seatbelts becuase the majority of the time a different outcome will occur. [/quote]

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