Petition · past parliament

Change the law to require rear-facing car seats for under-4s.

Closed 769 signatures

What the petition asks

Children are 5x safer in a fear-facing car seat than a forward-facing one.
In Sweden between July 2006 and November 2007 not one child under the age of six was killed in a car crash. Children in Sweden sit rear facing until the age of four under the car seat safety standard LAW.
A child’s neck only needs to stretch more than a quarter of an inch before snapping/breaking.
During a frontal collision, in a forwards facing car seat, the child is flung forward. As the child's head flung/stretched forward taking on 300kg of loading within the neck at just 30mph.

Timeline

16 Nov 2015 Petition opened for signatures
16 May 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 769
Status Closed
Opened 16 Nov 2015
Closed 16 May 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.