snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
I haven't found a link for it yet - might not be on the google bot yet and this just happened last night in my city...
A car ran a red light, t-boned another car, then pushed into a tree sideways. (So frontal impact, then side impact.) There was an 18mo old in the car improperly restrained, no vitals on scene & resuscitated in ambulance. He's now in critical condition in hospital with back injuries. I'm betting he was ff'ing, and had he been rf'ing and properly restrained he'd have been much better off. (The news has reported him being improperly restrained, and it's the reason why our seat check was even busier than expected tonight, so that's how we know he wasn't restrained properly.)
Poor little guy, very sad for him and his family. Dad is facing charges in the collision, mom and 2 older siblings were also in the car but are doing better than him.
edited: I just saw the story on the news again and he actually t-boned the other vehicle and then they went sideways into the tree. I corrected that above too.
A car ran a red light, t-boned another car, then pushed into a tree sideways. (So frontal impact, then side impact.) There was an 18mo old in the car improperly restrained, no vitals on scene & resuscitated in ambulance. He's now in critical condition in hospital with back injuries. I'm betting he was ff'ing, and had he been rf'ing and properly restrained he'd have been much better off. (The news has reported him being improperly restrained, and it's the reason why our seat check was even busier than expected tonight, so that's how we know he wasn't restrained properly.)
Poor little guy, very sad for him and his family. Dad is facing charges in the collision, mom and 2 older siblings were also in the car but are doing better than him.
edited: I just saw the story on the news again and he actually t-boned the other vehicle and then they went sideways into the tree. I corrected that above too.