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"Derek" <
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> <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > Well, my mate's gotta sell his disco.... with a wife and 5 kids, the rear
> > seat were a godsend but now as he cannot by law allow kids to use the
> > seats
> > due to the lap seatbelts fitted there he now cannot take them anywhere. He
> > has them all writing a ****ty letter to 10 downing street too!! On the
> > other
> > hand, his missus is chuffed....no more screaming brats to take shopping.
> >
> > Wolfie
>
>
> I just had a look at the guidelines what a dogs breakfast per usual the
> only get out clause for the rear sideways seats is for kids over 4'5 or 12
> years old or if proper child restraints are fitted though I doubt that any
> are approved for sideways fitting
> as per
> 15. My vehicle has sideways facing seats in the rear. Does that make a
> difference?
>
> Yes! Some vehicles such as camper vans and four-wheel drive vehicles are
> fitted with sideways facing rear seats. A child restraint in a sideways
> facing seat does not meet the legal requirements. A child restraint has to
> be fitted to an approved anchorage, which does not include a seat belt on a
> sideways facing seat. Therefore a child restraint cannot be used on such a
> seat.
>
>
>
> which is contradicted by
>
>
>
> 19. What if there are no seat belts in the rear of a vehicle
> (car/van/camper)?
>
> Children under 3 must use the correct baby seat or child seat so they would
> need to be travelling in the front in the correct child restraint. Children
> 3 and up to 135 cms in height must use child seats or boosters in the rear
> where seat belts are fitted. The law is not going to make people fit
> restraints in the rear of vehicles where the seats do not have seat belts;
> but remember it is not safe for children to travel unrestrained. Cars dating
> from April 1982 will have seat belt anchorage points if they don't have seat
> belts - so fitting is easy. See also the FAQ above about sideways facing
> rear seats.
>
> about the only clear part in the shambles is this gem
>
> Children are not small adults. They are proportioned differently and their
> key organs are in different places
>
> Yep the people who drew this up are either aliens or have b*ll*x where their
> brains should be
>
> Derek
>
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>
...... and they are bloody Civil Servants, trying to justify their own
non-jobs, who have a new car every 2 years, think chips and a wiff of
fag smoke will kill quicker than arsenic, are probably Ramblers, think
a good day out is going to the garden centre, think Centre Parcs
are a true representation of the typical British countryside,
wear cycle helmets at all times, think everything they don't
enjoy should be banned, think ironed jeans on dress-down-Fridays
don't look ridiculous, think dress-down-Fridays are "cool",
got a degree in Complete Bollocks from the University of Degree's
Please Take One, wash their car every Sunaday at exactly 2pm,
think they are contributing to society by being a Civil Servant,
think electricty and running water cease north of Watford Gap
Serivces, moan about commuting and only seeing the kids for an
hour in the evening but are too stupid/boring to change their
jobs, think beer is poison (unless the boss likes it, or this
weeks Guardian On Sunday says it's "cool"), read magazines to
tell then how to "enjoy life" and are always in front of me at
the chekout at Focus dithering about how many screws to have
so they don't risk wasting one, etc etc etc.
In other words, boring, no-life idiots who think they are
better then everyone else and simply have to interfere in
eveyone else's life. Whatever happened to parents making
their own descisions?
And, of course, now that you can't get three children
in the back of the family saloon, everyone will need physically
bigger cars.......... absolutely brillaint! Good one guys.
Jeez - I really wish leaving this stupid country was viable....
Richard
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