What do you have to do to carry a three-year-old child in the rear seat of a passenger car with two children already sitting in safety seats and it is impossible to install a third safety seat?
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Correct answer
A. You must secure the child with a seat belt.
Explanation
The question is about carrying a three-year-old child in the rear seat of a passenger car where two children are already sitting in child seats and a third child seat cannot be fitted. You must secure the child with seat belts - answer A.
The Road Traffic Act allows a third child at least 3 years old to be carried in the rear seat of a passenger car, held by seat belts, when two children are carried in child seats or other restraints installed on the rear seats and it is not possible to install a third one. The rule solves the practical problem of narrow rear seats that fit only two child seats, but it sets three conditions at once: the child is at least 3 years old, two child seats are already there, and a third one cannot be fitted - and even then the child must be fastened with seat belts. Answer B, the child on an adult's lap, is forbidden and deadly dangerous: in a crash the adult will not hold the child and will crush them with their own body. Answer C has nothing to do with safety while driving - a door lock will not replace seat belts.
Legal basis: Art. 39 para. 3 and 3c of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)