cars and booster seats - is it OK to put one in the front?

[edam]

As I waved ds and dh off last night (going to stay with MIL) I noticed for some strange reason dh had moved ds's booster seat onto the front passenger seat. Made me rather uncomfortable. Just feels as if it might be less safe than in the back. Or illegal.

Is there anyone out there who knows whether it's OK or not? Want to be able to give dh 'the rules' as he'll just be shirty if I say I don't want him to do it again.

Thanks!

info here

its not illegal

statistically the front passneger seat is the least safe seat to sit in.... but ultimately it depends on the crash you have, which you wont know until it has happened.

If there is an active airbag it can kill a child so highly inadvisable to use the front seat, especially if there are empty safer seats avaliable in the back

Safer in the back (especially if there is an airbag), acoording to this site.

Blimey, I knew about airbags but had completely forgotten. Only it's an ancient car so I don't think it has any!

Men are very odd.

I read some fairly pragmatic advice on this recently; can't remember where. One really good bit of advice is to push the seat as far back as possible if you have an airbag (actually that's probably a reasonable idea even if you don't). The other thing was that sometimes having a child in the front seat is the lesser evil, if you're liable to find them very distracting in the back seat. But under 'normal' circumstances, the back is safer.

lol MI. And mine's even more eccentric than your average Joe.