Travel from Nassau (Bahamas) airport to Paradise Island with an Infant

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From this page about the driving laws:

It is the law that all drivers and their passengers wear seat belts while riding in a vehicle in The Bahamas.

  • A child weighing less than twenty pounds shall face the rear of the vehicle secured in an infant seat fitted to the rear seat.
  • A child twenty pounds and less than forty pounds - convertible car seat fitted to the rear seat.
  • A child over forty pounds or up to 4 ft. 9 in. tall shall be secured in a booster car seat fitted in the rear seat.
  • A child taller than 4 ft. 9 in. and between 8 and 12 years old shall be required to use a seat belt

Then from TripAdvisor:

Taken directly from the Bahamas Law Database. If you are renting a car the agency should have child seats available.

42C.

  • (1) Subject to section 42B, no person shall drive a motor vehicle or permit a person to ride as a passenger in that motor vehicle unless that person or that passenger is secured by a seat belt.

Mandatory use of seat belts.

  • (2) Subject to section 42B, no person shall ride as a passenger in any motor vehicle on any road unless he is secured by a seat belt.

  • (3) Where any passenger mentioned under this section is under the age of five years, such passenger shall be secured in a child passenger seat positioned in the rear passenger seat of the motor vehicle.

  • (4) Any driver of a motor vehicle who drives without a seat belt or allows a passenger in such vehicle to ride without a seat belt commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three hundred dollars.

  • (5) Any passenger other than the passenger referred to in subsection (3) who rides in a motor vehicle and is not secured by a seat belt commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars.

  • (6) Every person is guilty of an offence against this section who being the person driving the motor vehicle at the time of the breach, permits a child to ride without a seat belt or secured in a child passenger seat and such person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.

The same site insists that "A taxi from the airport will not have a car seat available. That is certain. ".

For a different viewpoint, depending on how much you want to risk it:

we were just there last year for several months: children were hanging out of car windows, etc. Even if the above was actually made into a law (which wasn't clear...?), it's not being enforced.

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