Safest way to travel with 6 in a pickup?
We have a Dodge Ram 2500 megacab as a tow vehicle. There are five of us -- hubby and I and three kids, ages 6, 7 and 9. In August we're going to a music festival about four hours away. DD9 is brin...
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srt20 wrote:blt2ski wrote:
hmmmm, 100K+ miles with 4 kids, spouse in a crew and ext cab truck, with NO air bags mind you!......hmmmmmm..... must have been one unsafe dad I were.
Put the smallest person per say in the front middle, after than, where ever folks will go. You WILL survive just fine! trust me.
Marty
That's all fine and dandy, but this isn't the 70s. We have the tech, we have the knowledge,why wouldn't they take advantage of it? Why would you give bad advice? Odds are they will be fine and not have an accident. But nobody can guarantee that!
If you want to do things your way, great. It's a free country. But the OP came on here looking for advice on how to be as safe as possible in their situation. They obviously weren't looking for advice that "might" have been acceptable when Fred Flintstone was driving.
Yabba dabba doooo!!!
Marty, the smallest person should only be in the front middle if he/she meets the age and/or weight requirements for riding in the front of a vehicle with air bags. I think in this case the smallest person was only 6 or 7 years old, so that will not work. Maybe you can turn off the passenger side air bag, but I have watched enough crash test videos to see that someone riding in the middle can be affected by the driver's air bag. It is clearly a safety issue. Air bags generally save lives, but they can cause a lot of harm to small people.
