legality of rear facing seats

[glenn]

I agree with your points, and suspect you interpretation of the "answer" from ICBC is right - no liability in saying no. And I don't buy the "rear end collisions are more common" argument either, for the simple reason that for the most part, the vehicle you are in normally has forward momentum, and a lot of kinetic energy, all of which has to go somewhere. And accidents don't only occur between two vehicles, but sometimes with stationary objects.

I take a "do so at your own risk" approach to my middle seats.

[thedjjack]

For every rear ended collision on car is going forward! Unless you are backing up and you tend to do that slowly!

[Firesong]

Just for the record and it might have been said already but
Sitting backwards isn't any safer than sitting frontwards
in relation to impact. Accidents generally have some side-to-side
twist etc to them. And the big impact for a major type of
injury is whiplash. It's not the initial jerk that gets you,
it's the recoil back and then the opposite direction.
You would still get this with a chair facing the other way.

Years as a RMT doing lots of accident related injuries for
SGI etc etc have shown me lots of strange and interesting things.

So for the record. Try to avoid accidents ;)

Firesong RMT ;)