Carrie_R
Ambassador - CPS Technician
SHOULD... not shold! Ohmigosh maybe I hit my head harder than I thought, lol... Can that be fixed?
Before we begin, I'd like to admit I am a chronicly bad booster buckler. The kids can't buckle themselves, and I often can't get out to buckle the boosters in after the kids get out (ie, school dropoff.) So, they just don't get buckled.
My current setup has a booster pass side 3rd row, and the seat pass 2nd row alternates between a RF Scenera and a booster. When the Scenera is there, the booster lives up on my front passenger seat. This is the setup I had this morning, and thankfully, the last time I did that switch out, I took the three seconds to buckle that booster in.
I was headed to work this AM, and was in a (fairly serious) car accident. Thank God everyone was okay, but I went from travelling in the westbound lane, spun out, crossed the grass median, was hit twice eastbound (front passenger and rear bumper,) and ended up in the eastbound right berm. None of the kids were with me (thankfully!) and aside from a little bump on my head and some brusing where the belt was, I seem to be fine. Airbags didn't deploy (?). Baby's diaper bag was between the front seats and ended up on the front dash.
After I crawled out, I looked in the back of the van -- none of my seats have visible damage, but I found my unbuckled booster in this state:
It goes without saying that from here on out, my unused boosters will ALWAYS be buckled. If J had been in that Radian, he would have gotten cracked by that booster, no question! And if the booster in my front seat (which is still sitting there like nothing had happened) hadn't been buckled, it would have undoubtedly been into ME, since all of my bruises are on my left side, and that's the way things shifted.
And this is the most serious damage:
Van is probably totaled, and obviously I need a whole bunch of new seats. (I had eight in there!!) My claims rep said they'd cut me a check for replacement, which sadly was about my second thought after it was clear that everyone was okay, and I realized my van was toast.
Of course the funniest part is, two days ago I finally "got around" to getting my seats checked, and Katie, Jess and I spent a good while installing everything. Ironic that my first and only tech install was the last install for those seats, and that van, lol!
Before we begin, I'd like to admit I am a chronicly bad booster buckler. The kids can't buckle themselves, and I often can't get out to buckle the boosters in after the kids get out (ie, school dropoff.) So, they just don't get buckled.
My current setup has a booster pass side 3rd row, and the seat pass 2nd row alternates between a RF Scenera and a booster. When the Scenera is there, the booster lives up on my front passenger seat. This is the setup I had this morning, and thankfully, the last time I did that switch out, I took the three seconds to buckle that booster in.
I was headed to work this AM, and was in a (fairly serious) car accident. Thank God everyone was okay, but I went from travelling in the westbound lane, spun out, crossed the grass median, was hit twice eastbound (front passenger and rear bumper,) and ended up in the eastbound right berm. None of the kids were with me (thankfully!) and aside from a little bump on my head and some brusing where the belt was, I seem to be fine. Airbags didn't deploy (?). Baby's diaper bag was between the front seats and ended up on the front dash.
After I crawled out, I looked in the back of the van -- none of my seats have visible damage, but I found my unbuckled booster in this state:
It goes without saying that from here on out, my unused boosters will ALWAYS be buckled. If J had been in that Radian, he would have gotten cracked by that booster, no question! And if the booster in my front seat (which is still sitting there like nothing had happened) hadn't been buckled, it would have undoubtedly been into ME, since all of my bruises are on my left side, and that's the way things shifted.
And this is the most serious damage:
Van is probably totaled, and obviously I need a whole bunch of new seats. (I had eight in there!!) My claims rep said they'd cut me a check for replacement, which sadly was about my second thought after it was clear that everyone was okay, and I realized my van was toast.
Of course the funniest part is, two days ago I finally "got around" to getting my seats checked, and Katie, Jess and I spent a good while installing everything. Ironic that my first and only tech install was the last install for those seats, and that van, lol!
