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Thank goodness she's been so diligent about keeping her kids safe!
Yesterday, my friend who lives in TX, was T-boned. She was on her way home from the Blue Bonnet factory (for those of you familiar with TX) and came to a 2-way stop. There was a hill to her left and a flat road to her right. She looked left, looked right, but didn't look left again. She started out into the intersection when she saw a car come up over the hill, but it was too late to do anything. The speed limit on that road is 50mph, but I'm sure the other lady put her brakes on for a second or two before impact.
She was hit on the driver's side on the 3rd row. She had her 3 kids and her parents with her. Everybody's fine (thank goodness) except for some cuts/scrapes and bruises. She and her 2yo were taken to the hospital to get checked out because her neck hurt, and her 2yo bit his tongue and had pretty bad burns from his harness.
Now for all the technical info that most of you will want to know.
They were driving an '01 Odyssey. The seating arrangements went like this:
K driving / her dad-passenger
2yo son RF in Evenflo Triumph 5 / empty
6yo DD (E) Radian 65 / her (tiny) mom / 6yo DD (A) Radian 65
The twin on the side of impact (E) was actually the one least injured. She got a little burned from the harness, but was fine overall. Her mom got bruised up a bit from being in between the 2 Radians. And her other DD (A) got cut up a bit on her face from her glasses. And her harness burns were fairly severe also. She was reading a book that ended up flying out of E's window after it was broken from the crash. K found it on the ground after the accident. (They spun around several times before coming to a stop.)
She's going today to buy new carseats. The insurance hasn't gotten back to them yet about whether or not the van is totalled, but I'm guessing it will be.
I suggested Nautilus's or Frontier 85s for her 2 oldest and either a Radian, a TFP, or a My Ride for her 2yo. Are there any others I should suggest? She liked the idea of having something for anti-rebound since her DS is only going to get bigger, but I gave her the MR suggestion since it has a higher weight limit also. I'm not exactly up-to-speed on all the new convertibles right now.
Any idea how insurance works with this? Will she get to choose any new carseats or will they only give her a specified amount of $?
Yesterday, my friend who lives in TX, was T-boned. She was on her way home from the Blue Bonnet factory (for those of you familiar with TX) and came to a 2-way stop. There was a hill to her left and a flat road to her right. She looked left, looked right, but didn't look left again. She started out into the intersection when she saw a car come up over the hill, but it was too late to do anything. The speed limit on that road is 50mph, but I'm sure the other lady put her brakes on for a second or two before impact.
She was hit on the driver's side on the 3rd row. She had her 3 kids and her parents with her. Everybody's fine (thank goodness) except for some cuts/scrapes and bruises. She and her 2yo were taken to the hospital to get checked out because her neck hurt, and her 2yo bit his tongue and had pretty bad burns from his harness.
Now for all the technical info that most of you will want to know.
They were driving an '01 Odyssey. The seating arrangements went like this:
K driving / her dad-passenger
2yo son RF in Evenflo Triumph 5 / empty
6yo DD (E) Radian 65 / her (tiny) mom / 6yo DD (A) Radian 65
The twin on the side of impact (E) was actually the one least injured. She got a little burned from the harness, but was fine overall. Her mom got bruised up a bit from being in between the 2 Radians. And her other DD (A) got cut up a bit on her face from her glasses. And her harness burns were fairly severe also. She was reading a book that ended up flying out of E's window after it was broken from the crash. K found it on the ground after the accident. (They spun around several times before coming to a stop.)
She's going today to buy new carseats. The insurance hasn't gotten back to them yet about whether or not the van is totalled, but I'm guessing it will be.
I suggested Nautilus's or Frontier 85s for her 2 oldest and either a Radian, a TFP, or a My Ride for her 2yo. Are there any others I should suggest? She liked the idea of having something for anti-rebound since her DS is only going to get bigger, but I gave her the MR suggestion since it has a higher weight limit also. I'm not exactly up-to-speed on all the new convertibles right now.
Any idea how insurance works with this? Will she get to choose any new carseats or will they only give her a specified amount of $?