Video promoting extended 5-pt use

[mamato2]

This link was forwarded to all the parents in my dd's pre-school. Apparently one parent watched it and sent the info to the director who then sent it out to all of us.
A 3 yr old in a booster died after being thrown from a vehicle when his seatbelt failed. They feel had he been in a tethered 5-pt he could have lived.

This leads me to a question .So often I hear/read that passengers die after being 'ejected' from their vehicle. Why does this happen so often? Do the doors not hold upon impact? I keep my doors locked while driving. Does that help?
I've never considered that my seatbelt would fail, and if it does I sure don't want my door flying open!!

C.

 

[mamato2]

sorry forgot the link!!

Sheesh....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azgBhZcqaQ&NR

sorry about that!!

C.

 

[my3girls]

Your link didn't work for me, here's the one I got to work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azgBhZfcqaQ

Here is the mom's story, in it she says Kyle was riding on the passenger side, as was she, and both their windows were broken out. http://www.kyledavidmiller.memory-of.com/

Locking your doors isn't a bad idea, but it wouldn't have made a difference this time.

 

[glockchick]

Eerily enough, this family lives in the same town I do. And we travel that particular stretch of road regularly. It's a very dangerous intersection and many people are killed there. I always breathe a sigh of relief when we're past it safely. I feel so bad for that family.

 

[mamato2]

Thanks... I left out a letter. My double 'bad'. I don't know how to cut and paste so I have to type everything in and often make typos!!!
C.

 

[my3girls]

Thanks... I left out a letter. My double 'bad'. I don't know how to cut and paste so I have to type everything in and often make typos!!!
C.

No problem, here's what I do: when the address I want to copy is written out in the top address line (like where you would go to type www.CNN.com or whatever), right click on it, you should get the option to "copy", then take it where you want to go, click once with your left mouse button (to align the cursor) then press right click again, you should get the option to "paste". Sometimes when you right click on a link (like from an email or someone else's post) you get the option to "copy shortcut", this works too, then just right click and paste it somewhere else. Sometimes it's not quite this simple and you need to click and drag over the entire thing you want to copy (say a paragraph) when it all turns blue (usually) you then right click inside the blue area, copy, paste, etc..... Hope that helped, it can really make life easier!