snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
This is a 2nd hand story, so take it with a grain of salt in case it was relayed wrong. The person who told me had been told by the mom herself though, so it seems reliable to me. :thumbsup:
While in my local BRU tonight, I was talking to an employee while I was reading through the manual for the Titan deluxe, and told the employee I was a car seat tech. She then told me about a mom who'd been in earlier in the day who had had a crash about 3hrs prior. Apparently, she was coming in to buy a seat because her baby was at the police station and she couldn't leave to come home without a carseat and they wouldn't let her use the carseat that had been in the crash, so there she was buying a seat.
I have kind of mixed feelings on this. On one hand I'm amazed that the police would be proactive about getting seats out of circulation that have been in a crash and not even letting a baby ride home in one, but on the other hand, what would they do if a parent couldn't run out & buy a seat right then and there?
Very interesting policy to say the least... I know at roadside checks parents with their kids unrestrained or in very old & obviously dangerous seats will be held at a check point until a safe seat is brought for the child. Maybe they're implementing a similar policy with crashed seats? And I wonder what they're doing with the confiscated seats? :question:
While in my local BRU tonight, I was talking to an employee while I was reading through the manual for the Titan deluxe, and told the employee I was a car seat tech. She then told me about a mom who'd been in earlier in the day who had had a crash about 3hrs prior. Apparently, she was coming in to buy a seat because her baby was at the police station and she couldn't leave to come home without a carseat and they wouldn't let her use the carseat that had been in the crash, so there she was buying a seat.
I have kind of mixed feelings on this. On one hand I'm amazed that the police would be proactive about getting seats out of circulation that have been in a crash and not even letting a baby ride home in one, but on the other hand, what would they do if a parent couldn't run out & buy a seat right then and there?
Very interesting policy to say the least... I know at roadside checks parents with their kids unrestrained or in very old & obviously dangerous seats will be held at a check point until a safe seat is brought for the child. Maybe they're implementing a similar policy with crashed seats? And I wonder what they're doing with the confiscated seats? :question: