Victorious4
Senior Community Member
Only missed 1 question: about seat belt stalks forward of the seat bite ... the instructors admitted to saying that there was nothing to help such a situation, but NHTSA says a top tether can help -- I made a blind guess after wracking my brain with it for a good 5 minutes straight -- oh well, if I'd have guessed right, I wouldn't have really learned the correct answer.
It was sooooo much FUN! 15 of us, all police/firemen, except for 1 nurse & me. Each day we played Jeopardy for review & all the guys were arguing over who got me on their team, LOL & for the test the instructors told me I should probably move to another room because the guys all wanted to cheat off me @@ I'm such a sap, I was really sad when it ended ... I was the last one to stick around at the carseat event *SIGH*
Now, I can't wait to get the final "go ahead" from NHTSA
Already made the announcement at church, LOL & plan to hit up Leila's Nursery school teacher tomorrow to let her know she can post a sign up sheet soon & I'm also going to start really getting on the Elementary school's case -- the other local techs hold monthly events only at the Sherrif's Station outside of our district & I want our local fire house to hopefully back me up in trying to get the school to address the fact that far too many carpools do not use boosters and have 2+ kids share a belt *GASP*
BTW, the instructors were really "down" on Britax (they did say that they're certainly innovators) -- they had very convincing experience with crash dynamics & images of 3 vehicles locally that had been ripped in half: carseats tethered RF broke (even though otherwise, there was no cause for the carseat to break besides the fact that the RF tether was attached to both halves of the vehicle) So, they said to check with the vehicle manufacturer before tethering RF.... Also, I learned our local misuse rate is about 97%
It was sooooo much FUN! 15 of us, all police/firemen, except for 1 nurse & me. Each day we played Jeopardy for review & all the guys were arguing over who got me on their team, LOL & for the test the instructors told me I should probably move to another room because the guys all wanted to cheat off me @@ I'm such a sap, I was really sad when it ended ... I was the last one to stick around at the carseat event *SIGH*
Now, I can't wait to get the final "go ahead" from NHTSA
Already made the announcement at church, LOL & plan to hit up Leila's Nursery school teacher tomorrow to let her know she can post a sign up sheet soon & I'm also going to start really getting on the Elementary school's case -- the other local techs hold monthly events only at the Sherrif's Station outside of our district & I want our local fire house to hopefully back me up in trying to get the school to address the fact that far too many carpools do not use boosters and have 2+ kids share a belt *GASP*BTW, the instructors were really "down" on Britax (they did say that they're certainly innovators) -- they had very convincing experience with crash dynamics & images of 3 vehicles locally that had been ripped in half: carseats tethered RF broke
(even though otherwise, there was no cause for the carseat to break besides the fact that the RF tether was attached to both halves of the vehicle) So, they said to check with the vehicle manufacturer before tethering RF.... Also, I learned our local misuse rate is about 97%
