19/11/2025
📣‼️It’s that time of year again where it’s absolutely Baltic and we’re all in our cosy jackets and winter wear.
This is your annual reminder that COATS DO NOT BELONG IN CAR SEATS!!!
Please please take them off. It severely impacts the ability of the harness to do its job properly and can result with the child being ejected from their seat in a collision as the fabrics compress. It is one of those key situations that is actually a matter of life or death.
Take the extra five minutes to buckle them in safely and then pop their jacket over the top like a blanket. Their life is more important than convenience this winter.
This applies to all coats, puffa jackets, snowsuits, star blankets, pram suits, cute little bear outfits and anything with a slippy waterproof covering. Aside from overheating, severely dangerous harness fit and loose straps; waterproof material, although thin, is slippy and straps can easily slide off a child’s shoulders in these as well.
Yes this also applies to us adults and any child in a high backed booster with the seatbelt.
The belt can only do its job if it’s in contact with our bodies.
Let’s lead by example for our kids and not wear coats in the car.
Let’s travel safer this winter.
Let’s keep our kids as safe as possible for as long as possible
Let’s educate and share amongst friends and family around winter car seat safety.
https://youtu.be/4YIcMQ6RJAA - infant carriers
https://youtu.be/wuZSEbIBd5g - 5 point harness
Drive safe
DMB Car Seats
This video shows the difference a thick jacket can make to a correct, tight harness fit to a child in a car seat. The harness cannot get close to the childs'...