Pretty sad safety stats from Friday

mommycat

Well-known member
Just a disappointed vent, really.

I was travelling home from work on Friday when we got stuck in traffic because of an accident. I "amused" myself by staring brazenly into other people's cars. I only saw 6 kids/seats, but ended up with 6 for 6 in terms of crappy use or less than ideal choices. I didn't even look at the adults because you know that would be bad. :(

One lady had an empty seat with an overhead shield. I don't know enough about the seats to know if it was old as well as a crappy choice. There was one kid who looked about 11 who was sitting in the front seat, which I guess is ok but now that I know more I would have liked to see him in the back. Another young teen girl in the back seat but I didn't see a seatbelt, so she either wasn't wearing one or had put the shoulder belt behind her. One car with two kids had a boy who looked about a year old FF in a 3-in-1, and he was sitting sort of leaning to the side so I am assuming his harness was pretty slack. The little girl next to him I would guess was about 3 or 4, in a highback booster, but with the shoulder belt tucked behind her (WHY?!). And then a little baby, probably close to a year and adorably chubby, sleeping peacefully in a RF AOE. I was so excited to see one child restrained well, until we passed them again and I noticed the chest clip was almost on his belly. :( SO close to being very well done.

Anyway, that's my vent for today.
 
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Judi

CPST/Firefighter
Well, on a better note, at last Thursday's clinic, I saw one perfectly installed car seat. She says she is on pregnancyweekly.org a lot. She did great. It was a MA, RF. Oh, by the way, I did 17 seats that day.
 

mommycat

Well-known member
Yay for seeing a great install! :) Too bad it was 1 out of 17, though.

I did see a great commercial by childsafetylink.ca on tv last night while watching Hell's Kitchen, it's not on their website yet. It said RF is so much safer than FF and to RF to at least 1 year AND 22 lb, etc. I can't remember the whole thing, but it was great to see. I hope they post it on their website soon.
 

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