http://www.carseat.se Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:03:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sunday was a very tragic day in Sweden. A horrible accident took place in  the north of Sweden. It took the life of a mother, father and their 5-year old daughter.  A 10-year girl is fighting for her life after being critically injured.  The car somehow drove over to the ... http://www.carseat.se/a-swedish-rear-facing-car-seat-saves-another-life/ Many parents ask about side impact protection of Swedish rear facing car seats. All kinds of fancy slogans are used to promote side impact protection for different brands around the world. Especially for forward facing seats. Swedish children were first placed rear facing in 1965 and during all these years ... http://www.carseat.se/rear-facing-and-side-impact-collisions/ Front seat of a car is sometimes called "suicide seat", "death trap" and "child killer" by parents on various internet forums.  The Swedes, widely recognized as being 30 years ahead of other countries in car seat safety, use the front seat extensively with airbag deactivated and have an unbelievable safety ... http://www.carseat.se/are-car-seats-in-front-seat-safe/ Many parents wonder how the Swedes keep their kids rear facing until age 4 or longer.  How does a parent fit one, two, or three rear facing seats in the rear and still have room left in front?  Is a large car necessary or will a mid size, or small ... http://www.carseat.se/rear-facing-in-real-life/ Collisions are terrible and scary but does occur more often than we like.  The whole point with using a Swedish rear facing car seat is to keep our children safe in case of an accident. Hearing of unharmed kids in severe collisions is always a relief. Phoebe uses a Britax ... http://www.carseat.se/britax-two-way-saves-a-life/ While talking to other parents about car seat safety one statement often come up: "When I was a child me and my sister were sleeping in the back seat without car seat or seat belt and that worked fine". Is this true?  Do we really need car seats?  Lets take ... http://www.carseat.se/were-kids-safe-in-cars-40-years-ago/ A common question by parents is why Swedish rear facing car seats lack chest clips.  Aren't chest slips necessary?  Are seats without chest clips secure and safe? Swedish car seats are certified according the the European standard ECE R44 which is fairly strong, a bit stricter than the US standard FVMSS ... http://www.carseat.se/where-are-the-chest-clips/ There are many people around the world who work hard  to spread the enormous benefits of rear facing car seats.  One of those is Helena who run the popular site Rearfacing.co.uk which has helped tens of thousands of parents in UK learn about rear facing.  UK is like most other ... http://www.carseat.se/win-a-swedish-rear-facing-car-seat/ Britax new colors are almost here (see slideshow below or external gallery by clicking here).  Not all companies are great at timing deliveries, especially new colors, but Britax are as usual reliable.  Select models and colors are being delivered this week.  New colors are similar to previous lineup with no ... http://www.carseat.se/britax-new-colors-are-almost-here/ A large number of parents daily send emails to www.CarSeat.se with all sorts of great questions about rear facing and the Swedish car seats.  The  email below is a little different (and scary) since it involves a terrible crash. Many thanks to A-L in Finland for the actual photo of ... http://www.carseat.se/britax-multi-tech-saves-a-life/