Children and the rear seats

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suitability of car seats to take child seats is an issue with Land Rover. Land Rover state in their literature that only the front passenger seat in a Defender is suitable for any sort of child seat (except boosters).

BTW if you were thinking of using any of the inward facing seats and lap-belts with booster seats for children then you can't now legally anyway. (You can of course still do it on the forward facing middle seat although I can't see how a booster would help safety on a lap belt) See this below taken from the Road Safety section of the Dept for Transport website:

D. My vehicle has sideways-facing seats
There has never been a legal requirement to fit seat belts in sideways-facing seats. The human body bends forward from the waist - it does not bend sideways and the potential for internal and spinal injury is high therefore if a passenger is secured with a seat belt in a sideways-facing seat. For similar reasons, the type-approval standard for child seats and boosters does not include fixing them in a sideways-facing seat.

A child who is required to use child seats/boosters (ie all those under 135 cms in height who are also under 12 years of age) cannot travel in a sideways-facing seat. A child who needs to use a child seats or boosters must use a forward or rearward facing seat only.
 
Thanks all - I didn't think they were allowed. Well we do have adults but to be honest those seats aren't all that comfy for big people especially for longer journeys.....

May resort to the Saab :p

Thanks very much for your help :)
 
Mine travel in the rear seats, side facing with lap belts. Yes people on here tell me how stupid I am to do so, but no it is not illegal
 
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