Safer Car or Safer Car Seat in this Weather?

[4thTimeIsTheCharm]

Need to take DD2(4) out today and DH and I can't agree so thought i'd ask here.

Weather still pretty bad here, roads around are flooded but generally passable. We live in the sticks so it's lanes which are muddy as well as flooded.

DH's car is a 4x4 with high spec tyres, it has the ability for all 4 wheels to work completely independently of each other so will have no problem with the road conditions. The car seat available in that car is a high back booster using the 3 point car seat belt to secure DD. DD has never travelled in a HBB so far.

My car is a van style 8 seater. The tyres are good quality but the design of the car is such that the wheels are very small for the size of vehicle. It struggles a lot with mud. The car seat in my car is a 5 point harness isofix seat (DD's normal seat).

DD weighs exactly 18kg so is the minimum weight for the HBB in DH's car and just on the max for the 5 point in my car. She is only just turned 4.

The 5 point seat cannot move to DH's car as he has no isofix in his.

Which would you use?

YABU - 4x4 with HBB
YANBU - Van with 5 point Isofix

@gindaddy ERF is not the "latest wheeze from the industry" it's based on physics and probability and is demonstrably safer, even for adults.

Newton's first law and all that.

That makes sense op. Yes safer car given that she is now ok for the HBB. I know how you feel though as car safety is important to me.

Safer car in these conditions- if your van gets stuck in mud/slides into a ditch, it is much more dangerous than - careful- driving in a car that is made for these conditions

Classic MN
OP-
The 5 point seat cannot move to DH's car as he has no isofix in his.
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And can I ask, can the car seats be moved between cars, surely?

Hilarious

I would use the 4x4 OP I can't vote in the poll due to MN's mad IT "skillz"