How do you install a child safety seat in your vehicle?
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Correct answer
C. As recommended by the device manufacturer.
Explanation
The question is about how to install a child safety seat in a vehicle for carrying a child. You install it in line with the recommendations of the device manufacturer - answer C.
The Road Traffic Act states that child safety seats and other child restraints are installed in the vehicle in line with the recommendations of the device manufacturer, which indicate how the device can be used safely. The manufacturer knows how the child seat behaved in crash tests and therefore specifies whether it is fitted with the car seat belt or with ISOFIX anchor points, what weight and height of child it is designed for, whether it faces forwards or backwards and on which seat; only fitting it according to the instructions gives the protection that the child seat promises. Answers A and B put the comfort of the child or the driver above safety - and the most common mistakes are exactly a loosely routed seat belt, a child seat placed "comfortably" sideways to the door, or one fitted rear-facing in front of an active passenger airbag. Before the first journey you read the child seat manual and the car manual, and after fitting it you check that the child seat does not move by more than 2-3 cm.
Legal basis: Art. 39 para. 3a of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)