Reporting unrestained children

AdventureMom

Senior Community Member
Wow, I just noticed on this site that Illinois has a number you can call to report unretrained children. Anything like that in the DC area? I have called the police once to report a car with children hanging out of the windows - literally. And three times have approached folks with unrestrained children (this was not received well at all :mad: ). So it would be so wonderful to have a service like that who would follow up with mailing info to them, etc...

FYI, I used to work at a hospital as a Patient Representative. One night a whole family was admitted to the ER after a car wreck - at 2:00am. Five kids. None of them restrained. This was about 15 years ago so I don't recall all of the specifics, but I remember a child maybe 2 yrs old or so, who had some head injury as a result... :( And the one of the EMTs telling us that after they got everyone out of the car (the parents were unconscious at the time), the child who was about 3 or 4 yrs old kept crying and screaming and pointing at the car. The EMT kept saying "Yeah, I know - bad wreck - come on, let's go", trying to get the child into the ambulance. The child then ran back to the car. The EMT followed and the child showed him an INFANT who had been thrown up under one of the front seats. In all the wreckage, they had not seen the child. Fortunately, the child only suffered a broken arm and some cuts. Geez. I remember sitting with the mother in the PICU next to her child with the head injuries, comforting her as she cried over and over ,"My baby, my baby...". I wanted sooooo bad to wring her neck instead... :mad:

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mominabigtruck

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I drive alot on the interstate so I just call the highway patrol. If I'm out around where I live I have a couple of friends that are city cops and one deputy so I'm pretty covered. I frankly think people are uninformed idiots who deserved a ticket if its warranted. In ohio an unrestrained child ticket runs about $125 and I figure that's a pretty good motivator to make people do the right thing.
 

Patriot201

Car-Seat.org Ambassador
Are you in VA, DC, or MD?

I live in the DC area too. I always just call #77 (VA state police) or my local police station (the number is programmed into my cell phone). I don't know MD's number. Sorry!
 

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