2017 regulation for car safety: goodbye to backsplashes.
Important innovations opened 2017 with regard to children's car safety. The 2017 legislation for car safety provides that from January, in fact, booster seats can only be approved for children over 125 centimeters tall. But beware: those already approved can continue to be sold and, of course, used. It has been talked about for some time, but now the arrangement is official: all seats designed for children
up to 125 centimeters in height must by law have
a backrest , in order to make it easier to use the seat belt and strengthen protection in case of accidents. The information circulating on the net is not always accurate. Let's try to clarify the new legislation. First of all, article 172 of the highway code 'Use of seat belts and child restraint systems' remains unchanged, which refers to the use of approved products (therefore in the 2017 Regulation all R44/04 products remain valid and R129). For some years now, the use of the restraint system (seat or booster seat) has been mandatory for children
up to 150 centimeters in height , which is approximately equivalent to 12 years of age (limit that remains unchanged). Until last year, however,
the 'upstands' (raised or boosters) were also put into production, usable starting from 22 kilograms in weight (about 5 years old) . They are seated like a cushion, without armrests, which raise the little traveler by about 10 centimeters, so as to allow the normal seat belt to be fastened.
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