Recent national surveys indicate that children are nearly always safer when riding in the rear seats even in cars without passenger-side airbags. Make sure to use car seats properly. Children over 20 pounds or one year of age should ride facing forward, but in the back seat. If a toddler must ride in the front seat of a vehicle that has a passenger-side airbag, slide the vehicle seat as far back as possible. Always make sure your child is properly restrained.
Seat belts save lives.
These few simple steps can make an enormous difference.