AdventureMom
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First of all, the composition of my class:
- 14 Fire/Rescue cadets
- 4 Marines (???)
- 3 state troopers
- 2 nurses from a local OB unit at a hospital (forgot to add them when I first posted)
- 1 NHTSA collision reconstruction engineer
- and .... me.... (they all looked at me like "you don't HAVE to be here?")
So now I have to take back what I said about FF/police not really knowing much or being into it (well, not sure if they're "into it"). The instructor was a FF and the FIRE CHIEF (!) has been a CPS instructor for 6 years now. And they really know their stuff. I was very impressed that the county has all of the FF cadets go through the full blown CPS course and their grade in the course factors into their grade for FF trainee school (not sure what you call that...?).
The sheriff deputy (ALSO an instructor) talked awhile and brought up the topic of a recent crash in which two people were killed in a Jeep Wrangler. He added that soft top Jeep Wranglers are "death traps". (oops - mine was sitting right outside in the parking lot...) He went on to say that he told his teenage kids that he will match them dollar-for-dollar when they're ready to purchase a car, but if he EVER catches them riding in a Jeep Wrangler, then the deal is off. I did relay all of this to DH during our break - he really loves his Wrangler....
Back to the class - I really like it so far. The county that's giving it is a pretty wealthy county about an hour from here. So they went out and purchased a bunch of new seats to play with... Of course, I was drooling over them the whole time but we didn't play with them today. We talked mainly about seatbelts today.
Oh, at the end of class, we had to check out four different cars and fill out a checklist about what type of seatbelts were in there, etc. I noticed that Ford's lower anchors are HUGE! They're quite beefy, at least in the Taurus that we looked at.
I'll update more tomorrow
Maria
- 14 Fire/Rescue cadets
- 4 Marines (???)
- 3 state troopers
- 2 nurses from a local OB unit at a hospital (forgot to add them when I first posted)
- 1 NHTSA collision reconstruction engineer
- and .... me.... (they all looked at me like "you don't HAVE to be here?")
So now I have to take back what I said about FF/police not really knowing much or being into it (well, not sure if they're "into it"). The instructor was a FF and the FIRE CHIEF (!) has been a CPS instructor for 6 years now. And they really know their stuff. I was very impressed that the county has all of the FF cadets go through the full blown CPS course and their grade in the course factors into their grade for FF trainee school (not sure what you call that...?).
The sheriff deputy (ALSO an instructor) talked awhile and brought up the topic of a recent crash in which two people were killed in a Jeep Wrangler. He added that soft top Jeep Wranglers are "death traps". (oops - mine was sitting right outside in the parking lot...) He went on to say that he told his teenage kids that he will match them dollar-for-dollar when they're ready to purchase a car, but if he EVER catches them riding in a Jeep Wrangler, then the deal is off. I did relay all of this to DH during our break - he really loves his Wrangler....
Back to the class - I really like it so far. The county that's giving it is a pretty wealthy county about an hour from here. So they went out and purchased a bunch of new seats to play with... Of course, I was drooling over them the whole time but we didn't play with them today. We talked mainly about seatbelts today.
Oh, at the end of class, we had to check out four different cars and fill out a checklist about what type of seatbelts were in there, etc. I noticed that Ford's lower anchors are HUGE! They're quite beefy, at least in the Taurus that we looked at.
I'll update more tomorrow
Maria
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