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abi and emi's jd
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I know that you get these all the time, but I wanted to share my story, too.
I've never posted on this particular board, but as Abi's JD I used to be fairly regular on the OBBC car seat boards. I have one seven-year-old daughter, Abigail, and one four month old son, Jack. I also have an angel daughter, Emily, who would be 23 months old. This is Emily's story.
Last year, my husband was in a bad wreck with our two daughters, who were then six years and nine months old. They were all fine, because the girls were strapped into car seats. He was a much more cautious driver after that.
When our daughter was eighteen months old, in June of this year, he decided that she could forward face in his car. After all, he was a cautious driver, and she was big enough by law to sit forward. So he turned her around. She was still rear facing in my car at that time.
On August 14, 2009, he got into the car with our daughter. He was not even 2 miles from home when he was hit head on. Emily was internally decapitated and died on scene.
She was 20 months old, 25 pounds, and 32 inches tall, plenty big enough by legal standards to be forward facing, but if she had been rear facing, she may very well have survived.
We now have our 4-month-old son in a car seat that rear faces to 45 pounds, and I am willing to tell Emily's story whenever I can, in hopes that I can convince someone to rear face longer in memory of her.
I've never posted on this particular board, but as Abi's JD I used to be fairly regular on the OBBC car seat boards. I have one seven-year-old daughter, Abigail, and one four month old son, Jack. I also have an angel daughter, Emily, who would be 23 months old. This is Emily's story.
Last year, my husband was in a bad wreck with our two daughters, who were then six years and nine months old. They were all fine, because the girls were strapped into car seats. He was a much more cautious driver after that.
When our daughter was eighteen months old, in June of this year, he decided that she could forward face in his car. After all, he was a cautious driver, and she was big enough by law to sit forward. So he turned her around. She was still rear facing in my car at that time.
On August 14, 2009, he got into the car with our daughter. He was not even 2 miles from home when he was hit head on. Emily was internally decapitated and died on scene.
She was 20 months old, 25 pounds, and 32 inches tall, plenty big enough by legal standards to be forward facing, but if she had been rear facing, she may very well have survived.
We now have our 4-month-old son in a car seat that rear faces to 45 pounds, and I am willing to tell Emily's story whenever I can, in hopes that I can convince someone to rear face longer in memory of her.
