Car insurance for young drivers who protect their passengers

If you are a motorist with car insurance for young drivers and you enjoy helping out family members by looking after a younger sibling for the day, or have children of your own, it is a legal requirement that you have the correct safety features in your car ready to accommodate a baby or young child.

Even if you're only driving them a short distance, babies and small children must, by law, be in an age-appropriate baby or child seat for their own safety.

Not only can very young babies not support the weight of their own head, but they are too small to be restrained by normal adult seatbelts.

It is very important to remember that it is illegal to carry a baby in a rear-facing baby carrier at the front of a vehicle which has frontal airbags. In the event of an accident, the deployment of the airbags could severely injure or kill a baby placed in this position.

Similarly, a small child of less than 135 cm in height or under the age of 12 must use a booster seat, or other comparable product, so that they are raised to the height necessary for the seatbelt to restrain them correctly.

Failure to do this could mean that the child's body is not held securely in an accident. Moreover they could suffer friction burns to their neck due to their stature in relation to the seatbelt straps.

The only exceptions in which a young child can be a passenger in a vehicle without using the appropriate car seat are (a) in a taxi, (b) if there are two occupied restraints in the rear of the car and a third cannot be fitted, or (c) if the child has to travel a short distance for an unforeseen emergency.

Car insurance for young drivers with younger siblings
If you always take great care of any little passengers who travel in your car, be they your own children or your siblings, then you could be saving money with insurethebox's new driver car insurance because we reward motorists who drive in a safe and considerate manner.

Contact us today by giving us a ring on 0333 123 1308, or simply click on the get a quote button to see how much you could save on your car insurance for young drivers annual premium.