Twins survive due to carseats

Jewels · Apr 21, 2008

Wow! This is sad but it gave some good advice about how important carseats are.

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HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) -- "It would be easy to assume -- based on photos from the scene -- that there were no survivors in the collision between a tractor trailer and minivan Saturday morning. Sheet metal and other debris were scattered across Interstate 85 near Groometown Rd.

But there were two survivors; Two-year-old twins Jayden and Jada Brooks lived, in part, because they were strapped into their car seats.

wildeyes · Apr 21, 2008

omg..... makes me never want to get in a car again. horrible for the family. soooo sad... i'm so glad he understood the importance of carseats tho.. what a way to learn however... i bet he will be super vigilant about carseat safety from now on.

Mommy2Marcus · Apr 21, 2008

Oh WOW! My heart really goes out to this family. It makes me even more glad that I am a car seat FREAK! I am right now working on printing out information about 5 points for my MIL & am hoping to get him into a Graco Nautilus this weekend. I am SO glad those two kids were in car seats. It is obvious that is what saved them, as well as their Gardian Angels! That is AMAZING that they lived seeing that van. I am just dumbfounded!

MsFacetious · Apr 21, 2008

There is absolutely nothing that is so important that you need to make a u turn on the freeway, or cut across 4 lanes of traffic at the last minute. You just go to the next exit and get back on the freeway.

That is absolutely awful.

It looked like the seats were the Cosco Summit or something really similar.

Simplysomething · Apr 21, 2008

Poor babies. I can't even fathom that.

How horrible for that truck driver, can you imagine?

jdubsm · Apr 21, 2008

That is so sad.

It's a miracle those babies survived.

raelynn · Apr 21, 2008

I read about that yesterday, how awful.

Thank God the babies made it, but so sad they will grow up without a mom.

snowbird25ca · Apr 21, 2008

That is absolutely amazing they survived. And it goes to show that a properly used seat - even one that we may not recommend around here very often,

is able to protect it's occupants when used properly.

SingleMomTo2Girls said:
It looked like the seats were the Cosco Summit or something really similar.

I think they were eddie bauer combo seats. I paused the clip to get a good view of the seat.

I think it was probably the ventura. (5pt guide http://www.carseat.org/Pictorial/3-Five- Point-np.pdf )

The summit has a base on it and the adjustable headrest (not individual harness slots) :thumbsup:

BudgieStew · Apr 22, 2008

That is horrific.
I am in awe that the two babies survived it.

MsFacetious · Apr 22, 2008

snowbird25ca said:
I think they were eddie bauer combo seats. I paused the clip to get a good view of the seat. I think it was probably the ventura. (5pt guide http://www.carseat.org/Pictorial/3-Five- Point-np.pdf )

The summit has a base on it and the adjustable headrest (not individual harness slots) :thumbsup:

I never thought I'd see the day I would disagree with Trudy!

The Cosco Summit didn't used to have the adjustable headrest.

I knew 2 people in early 2006 who had them and they looked just like those seats. (Also like the Ventura) I was guessing they might have been passed down from older cousins or siblings or purchased when the babies were born, like so many people do when they buy the infant seat.

If they are newer then they definitely aren't the Summit. But, definitely Cosco.

snowbird25ca · Apr 22, 2008

SingleMomTo2Girls said:
I never thought I'd see the day I would disagree with Trudy!

The Cosco Summit didn't used to have the adjustable headrest. I knew 2 people in early 2006 who had them and they looked just like those seats. (Also like the Ventura) I was guessing they might have been passed down from older cousins or siblings or purchased when the babies were born, like so many people do when they buy the infant seat. If they are newer then they definitely aren't the Summit. But, definitely Cosco.

I'm not perfect Chelsae.

I didn't realize it didn't always have that adjustable headrest. Then again, Cosco does love to reuse names in a gazillion ways.

nisi · Apr 22, 2008

It is possible they recycled the Summit name at some point, but the seat in the video is definitely not the Summit that's been available for the last ~6yrs. The Summit (this one http://www.pbase.com/image/4294019/large.jpg) is a totally different shell than the family of combo seats they sell under a bazillion names (Commuter, Ventura, High Back Booster, etc, these... http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif...nturaDXHighBackBoosterCarSeat22248-large.jpeg) The seat in the video is definitely one of latter. Narrowing it down to a specific model is hopeless with the picture we have, but Trudi's guess of Ventura is as good as any. It's the right "family" of seats for sure.

MsFacetious · Apr 22, 2008

That means that the techs in my county gave out 2 more expired seats then. *sigh* If the Summit hasn't looked like that for 6 years... they had already had them for a while before I saw them. Ugh!

Better have those families check the expiration dates, they've got to be way expired by now.

nisi said:
It is possible they recycled the Summit name at some point, but the seat in the video is definitely not the Summit that's been available for the last ~6yrs. The Summit (this one http://www.pbase.com/image/4294019/large.jpg) is a totally different shell than the family of combo seats they sell under a bazillion names (Commuter, Ventura, High Back Booster, etc, these... http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif...nturaDXHighBackBoosterCarSeat22248-large.jpeg) The seat in the video is definitely one of latter. Narrowing it down to a specific model is hopeless with the picture we have, but Trudi's guess of Ventura is as good as any. It's the right "family" of seats for sure.

lovinwaves · Apr 22, 2008

I noticed it was a newer Honda Odyssey Van.

Such a sad story

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