Lateral shock absorber and child car safety seat therewith

A lateral shock absorber comprising:

• a protective fender pivoted to a base of a child car safety seat and pivotally switchable between a folded state and an unfolded state relative to the base of the child car safety seat;
• and
• a locking mechanism for selectively engaging with the protective fender to restrain the protective fender from switching to the unfolded state or disengaging from the protective fender to allow the protective fender to switch to the unfolded state when the protective fender is located in the folded state, the locking mechanism being disposed on the base of the child car safety seat, the locking mechanism comprising a locking assembly and an abutting block, the locking assembly being switchable between a locking state for engaging with the protective fender to restrain the protective fender from moving and a releasing state for allowing the protective fender to switch to the unfolded state from the folded state, the abutting block being pressed downwardly by a seat body of the child car safety seat when the seat body of the child car safety seat is installed on the base of the child car safety seat, and the locking assembly being driven by the abutting block to switch to the releasing state from the locking state when the abutting block is pressed downwardly by the seat body of the child car safety seat.