Originally Posted By: Garak
This is the one thing I wonder. If the seat isn't set up just so, and can tip with someone reaching backwards, what's going to happen in a collision?
I think if there were issues with these things flopping backwards in rear end collisions causing injuries, we would have heard about it by now. Especially when you consider most of these foldable rear 3rd row mini van seats are usually occupied by children. Of which there is a very low tolerance of injury to. As I said there are close to, if not over a million of these vehicles on the road. So any problems as far as the thing being poorly designed would have surfaced by now.
Perhaps someone with a Honda Odyssey can chime in. From the looks of these things the front of the seat itself locks on to some type of bar or bracket to secure it into position. (Obviously this one wasn't). It's like a manually adjustable front seat in that regard. Once you get it into the position you want, you release the adjustment lever and rock back and forth to be sure it's locked into place.
We'll never know exactly what this kid did or didn't do to cause this. But it appears the seat was not broken or faulty, and was in good working order. It just wasn't locked into position, allowing it to flop rearward, trapping him. Thus making it nothing more than a tragic, preventable accident.
This is the one thing I wonder. If the seat isn't set up just so, and can tip with someone reaching backwards, what's going to happen in a collision?
I think if there were issues with these things flopping backwards in rear end collisions causing injuries, we would have heard about it by now. Especially when you consider most of these foldable rear 3rd row mini van seats are usually occupied by children. Of which there is a very low tolerance of injury to. As I said there are close to, if not over a million of these vehicles on the road. So any problems as far as the thing being poorly designed would have surfaced by now.
Perhaps someone with a Honda Odyssey can chime in. From the looks of these things the front of the seat itself locks on to some type of bar or bracket to secure it into position. (Obviously this one wasn't). It's like a manually adjustable front seat in that regard. Once you get it into the position you want, you release the adjustment lever and rock back and forth to be sure it's locked into place.
We'll never know exactly what this kid did or didn't do to cause this. But it appears the seat was not broken or faulty, and was in good working order. It just wasn't locked into position, allowing it to flop rearward, trapping him. Thus making it nothing more than a tragic, preventable accident.
