Children’s car safety
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:16pm
Can anyone tell me if there is any rules or regulations on children’s car seats? We are hiring a car while on holiday and our grandson is coming over with his parents he’s 3 in may.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:28pm
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There certainly are rules, but they keep changing and I haven't made an attempt to keep up to date. All I can do is give you some links to look at.
The first is from the Spanish equivalent of the Ministry of Transport, and is a magazine you can click through. Unfortunately it's in image format, so you can't copy and paste into Google Translate.
http://www.dgt.es/revista/guia_sillitas/mobile/index.html#p=12
Two more from the same source, for information. If you're using Google Chrome, just right-click and tell it to translate:
The following are in English from a group comprised in part of Spanish police officers:
http://n332.es/2016/09/09/child-seats-and-children-in-cars/#
http://n332.es/2015/09/30/children-in-cars-2/
http://n332.es/2018/04/03/new-i-size-chart-for-child-seats/
I'd guess you'd need a Group 1 child seat.
In theory you should check what the latest classification of seat is required, but it's probable that if stopped, the police officer would just look to see that the child is safely secured in a seat - I doubt he'd look at the label on it.
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