My kid could survive this. Could yours?

Here is an article on a Swedish carseat site about an extremely severe car accident in Sweden, from which a rear-facing 1-year-old was the only passenger who walked away with only bumps and bruises. The accident killed 3 out of 5 passengers (one forward-facing child, and two adults), and severely injured another (a forward-facing child). The lone rear-facing passenger was also the weakest physically, and the least able to withstand crash forces on her own, yet she, not any of the others, literally WALKED away from about the most severe car accident imaginable.

Do you still think I'm crazy? Am I prohibiting my son from seeing the world by keeping him rear-facing, with the intention of doing it until we absolutely can't anymore, even if that's 4 or 5 years old? NO! I am giving him a fighting chance, come what may, while I'm still able.

Rear-face your children until you can't anymore. It is five times safer than forward-facing, and it saves lives. Plain and simple, if you want your kids to live through a severe accident, which can happen to anybody, rear-face for as long as you possibly can.

I'll mention it yet again. In Sweden, it is almost unheard of for a child to die in a car accident. In the US, it is the leading cause of death for children ages 1-14. They rear-face to 5 or 6 years old in most cases (I don't know why the 5-year-old in that car wasn't rear-facing. That's abnormal for Sweden.), whereas in the US, we're told to turn our kids forward-facing at one year of age. It's pretty obvious which is the way to go.

Radian XTSL and Radian 80 are extremely tall, with a 45 pound rear-facing limit.
Radian 65 is tall, and has a 40 pound rear-facing limit.
Safety First Complete Air is slightly shorter, and has a 40 pound rear-facing limit.
Graco MyRide is roughly the height of a Britax Marathon, and has a 40 pound rear-facing limit.
The new Cosco Scenera, despite its abnormally short shell, will rear-face to 40 pounds.
The NEW generation of Britax seats ALL rear-face to 40.
Select Evenflo seats also rear-face to 40. I know the Momentum does, not sure which others.
Old Britax, and all other US marketed convertible seats rear-face to 35 pounds.

Orren is enormous for his age, and he will still rear-face to probably 4 years old in his Radian XTSL. No, it's not the 5 or 6 years they get in Sweden, but it's the best we've got in the US, and I think every parent owes it to their kid to do the best they can. Some of the 40 pound rear-facing seats are less than $100. Anybody can afford this, and everybody should.