Unrestrained Kids

kwillia

kwillia

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K_Jo said:
My mom said she had some kind of harness for me. She hooked one end to me and one end to the back seat and I could run back and forth on the seat, jump up and down, or lie down and nap if I wanted to. She said I loved it! :lol:
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Did she ever put you in a billowing dress and fly you like a kite? :clap:
 
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bresamil

wandering aimlessly
People do whatever they want until it costs them something. Then they straighten up for awhile, then the memory goes on back burner, and they go right back to doing whatever they want.

Kids loose in back seat - cop pulls them over and gives them huge ticket - parent diligently makes sure kids are buckled for several months and then just gets tired of it and the kids are loose again.
 
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Hawkeyewife

New Member
Seat Belt Positioners can be dangerous

There are also studies that show that seatbelts can actually do more harm than good(i.e. the lapbelt locks and does internal damage)
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While I believe a booster is better than nothing for children in cars, you bring up goo point that seatbelts can actually do more damage in car accidents. If the belt is not positioned correctly (which is easy to do, especially with children under 6 in a booster), it can kill in an accident. My children are in 5 point harnesses until they are too big (which in the seats we have they must exceed 80 pounds). My 5 yr old asks why she needs to be in a car seat when her friends are in boosters, I just reply with "I want you to be in the safest seat we can give you."

It is my personal choice to have my kids in those seats as it is the choice of the parent's of poorly restrained kids to do whatever they want. My only fear is if I get into an accident with a car with inrestrained occupants that they would sue me (or my insurance) for thier injuries.
 
kermitt

kermitt

I have been..disenchanted
:offtopic:I've been seeing alot of people in the back of Pick Up trucks. Is that legal in MD?
 
pixiegirl

pixiegirl

Cleopatra Jones
Sweet 16 said:
Holy crap! :yikes: I weighed 80 lbs. in 7th grade. Somehow I can't picture a middle-schooler in a car seat.
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I weighed 93lbs at 22 when I got pregnant with my oldest son. :lmao:

I use to sleep on the floorboard of the car during long trips. Curl my body up on the floor and rest my head on the back seat.
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Dymphna said:
And how much of that car was steel that on today's cars is plastic and fiberglass?
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Yep, older cars had more steel, but that does NOT make them safer in a crash. You get steel to protect an egg in a 1 story fall from a roof, I get plastic and fiberglass. Guess who can make a more survivable container?

Its not about ultimate strength, folks, its about impact energy, and how you manage that energy. Newer cars are designed to give thier lives to save yours. They deform under impact, dissapating that energy. Now, a 4100lb 1968 Ford vs a 2100 Honda, the Honda loses, simply becuase theres not enough mass there to dissapate those energies.

But, take a car made in 1974 that weighs that same 2100lbs, and its a deathtrap compared to the Honda.

Vrai, if a baby dies in a carseat, thats not a condemnation of all carseats, its either that model had a defect, or it was improperly used. Like a lapbelt that causes internal injuries if not used properly, anything, including a Q-tip can cause harm.

Now, to be sure I dont think the law should require adults to buckle up, nor should there be helmet laws. Once you achieve majority, you should be free to go to hell in the handbasket of your choosing. But the law should require that you use proven safety systems for you child until they can make such a chioce themselves.
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Oh, and just to cover a hole in my ealrier post.

Take a 4100lb 1968 car vs a 4100 2008 car, and yes, that 1968 car wil look better, but the occupants are a lot likelier to not care becuase that are dead.
 
K_Jo

K_Jo

Pea Brain
PREMO Member
Chasey_Lane said:
I think it used to be. I remember driving home from Ocean City to Waldorf in the back of a truck. No accident, but I got sun burned pretty badly. :lol:
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I remember our neighbor driving a bunch of us to the park. We sat on the tailgate of his station wagon. :lol:
 
Cowgirl

Cowgirl

Well-Known Member
vraiblonde said:
True story, though:

When my ex and I were brand new parents, there was a story in the news about this woman who had her infant in the carseat in back (which was wrong because back then they told you to put the baby in the front seat because there was no such thing as a killer airbag). Anyway, baby's in the back seat, and when she got to her destination, the baby was dead. Strangled somehow and the Mom didn't know there was a problem because she couldn't see the baby.

I'm just sayin'....
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Mirrors work wonders. :thewave:
 
Fubar

Fubar

Look my ass glows!
vraiblonde said:
You guys are such products of your pop culture. When I was a kid, cars didn't even have seatbelts, let alone carseats for children. The vast majority of my peers are still alive.
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vrai dear sweet vrai-back when yous was a kid the roads were dirt and the traffic was 75% less than it is now. :whistle:Plus we didn't have all the illegals driving illegally, as well as all the other nimrods.
What exactly is "the vast" majority?
Buckle up my friend, we need you!:buddies:
 
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