car seats DO work, and kill if you don't use them

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squishles10

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #1

Sorry I don't know exactly where to post this.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Multi-vehicle-pileup-shuts-down-southbound-I-35-147862495.html

About half way down the article it states the only child in a car seat was unscathed. This makes me so angry. I'm sorry this family is going through this, but they did it to themselves, and I disagree with the quote in the article- the driver needs charged.

 

Phineasmama

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #2

I'm sorry but that is so negligent and the accident was completely and totally her fault, this woman needs to be charged

 

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krystin_21a

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #3

Four kids in the back seat??? Wow!

 

Ninetales

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #4

How the hell did they all fit? I drive a Cavalier and two adults and one child is tight enough. Ridiculous.

 

jenfrogmom

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #5

That is so ridiculous and stupid it makes me sick! She should be charged big time!

 

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• Apr 19, 2012

• #6

She needs to be charged. She took a child who wasn't hers, unrestrained, without the knowledge or permission of the child's parent on a car ride in a vehicle which couldn't accommodate everyone, ran out of gas, and didn't bother turning on her hazard lights. One horrible choice after another.

I have found out after the fact that someone I knew had transported my children in a seat belt shared with another child and I was livid and would not let her transport my kids any longer. Had there been an accident I would have pressed charges if my child were injured or killed. And if one of her kids had been killed as well I would have figured it was no more than she deserved for being so careless. Of course I feel horrible for the children. They do not deserve this. But the mother... I have a hard time having any sympathy. I hope she sits in jail for a long time.

 

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Syllieann

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #7

That woman made so many potentially fatal screw ups I can't imagine how they won't charge her. Screw up #1: too many passengers #2 not buckled #3 no flashing lights #4 improperly maintained vehicle #5 didn't pull off road onto shoulder

Maybe she couldn't pull off the road at that place but she should have been able to coast a bit even after running out of gas and who the heck piles a bunch of toddlers into a car to go to the park at 9pm?

 

Kat_Momof3

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #8

she should not have been driving that many people in one car... period... and if she HAD to for an emergency, then kids in the back sit on the floor with as many people restrained as possible... and what's with not turning the hazard lights on?

it's just a tragedy for the 2 kids who died and the one on life support... and proves proper carseat use does save lives... can't if you don't use them.

 

eddis

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #9

What a dreadful, and avoidable tragedy. So many bad choices. A 17-month-old, not strapped in properly? I just don't even know. And there were two other adults in that car. So sad.

 

mamakc

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #10

Seven people, three adults four children, in what looks to be a coupe? I'm guessing the baby was in the middle in the back, two adults in front, one adult in back with two kids sharing a seat and one kid on someone's lap. The whole thing is just stupid stupid stupid. Why do people make these horrible decisions??? Why couldn't the idiot adults die instead of the innocent kids? Awful story.

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Joyofbirth

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #11

This is local to me. It was on our news last night. I posted about it in SCM, but didn't think about here. It's just so, so sad. And this is pretty typical for this area. I see it everyday. Unfortunately, there will probably not be any charges. There usually aren't. The laws are pretty sucky around here. My heart aches for those mothers who lost their children by trusting the wrong person, who is a family member.

And really, no matter how stupid people are, I really don't think anyone deserves the horror of losing a child. That's a horror beyond anything.

 

Cath3114

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #12

This is absolutely ridiculous. I hope she is charged.

 

Brigala

CPST Instructor

• Apr 19, 2012

• #13

Joyofbirth said:

And really, no matter how stupid people are, I really don't think anyone deserves the horror of losing a child. That's a horror beyond anything.

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Part of me agrees with you, but she killed someone else's child also. That makes it really hard for me to say she doesn't deserve it. It's justice. Not that I actually would wish that pain on her... in an ideal world I'd prefer to see her sit in jail for a while to think about it without having to go through the horror of losing a child... but still. She killed another family's child and she deserves to know that pain herself as well.

In fact, I place equal responsibility on every adult in that car. Any one of them could have spoken up and said "this is a bad idea."

 

Phineasmama

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #14

It sounds like "going to the park" actually means... "going to get drugs" Nobody goes to the park that late unless they're up to no good.

 

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Syllieann

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• Apr 19, 2012

• #15

Phineasmama said:

It sounds like "going to the park" actually means... "going to get drugs" Nobody goes to the park that late unless they're up to no good.

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That's what I was thinking too. Between where/time and the fact that addiction is one of the only things that can fuel such at-any-cost kind of mentality. I didn't see anything on a test yet.