[Jonny Jeep]

Your links got an extra http:// in it here's a working one.

http//au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/6889052/general/child-restraints

For the last couple of years children in the UK must be at least twelve years of age or a minimum of 135cm in height before they can use an adult seat belt without a booster seat. Although there are exceptions to this. They are in a taxi, where two child seats/boosters are already being used in the rear and they are too wide to prevent one being fitted for a third child, and where a short unexpected journey is being made - like a parent being unavailable for some reason and a friend being asked to collect children instead.

Your child restraints may be perfectly safe, even without the ISOFIX system. It depends on whether you are able to fit them properly according to the manufacturers instructions. The ISOFIX system was introduced to simplify the process because there are many people who are not able to adequately secure child seats using other methods.

Even child seats that use the ISOFIX system could be potentially life threatening. It would depend on how much the child can move about within the seat during an accident and how much padding the seat has in the areas it would need it.

You'd think where people's own flesh and blood they would take the time and make the effort to ensure child restraints are fitted properly and securely, but perhaps that's asking too much of some people?