Would you report someone driving a young child around with no car seat?

[Hungrycaterpillarsmummy]

I've seen two adults in the past few months drive their young kids around with no car seat. I didn't realise this was a thing..
So today I saw a woman doing the school pickup and she had a wee tot in the front passenger seat with no car seat and no seatbelt on and I watched her drive away. I didn't see the child she was collecting so don't know how old they were but the girl I did see looked 3 or 4 yrs old.
I did note the reg so I can report it.
I take it I can do this anonymously?
The other one is a bit who is friends with my son (5yrs old) and again his dad didn't have a car seat for him. Honestly, this is shocking isn't it?!

Sadly, I see this all the time. Some people are just negligent of their children’s safety. Not sure reporting it would make any difference.

I've reported my neighbour for driving with their newborn baby, being held by the Mum in the front passenger seat while the Dad was driving.

The police did not give two hoots and said they might have a reason for doing it, and basically I shouldn't be judging them. This was after I told them it had happened multiple times since the baby was born and they didn't actually own a car seat for the newborn.

No I wouldn’t report it - especially not friend’s dad.

Not an excuse, but I grew up in an era when kids had no seatbelts and sometimes rode in the boot area.

My dh collected a friend’s kid from school on an emergency basis recently, put friends kid in the car seat and ours sat on the back seat with regular seatbelt (he is 1m25). I told him not to do it again and simply say “sorry can’t help short of car seats!” If he is prevailed upon to help our friends at short notice.

There isn't much point reporting it later as they won't do anything. You can report it at the time you see it. Awareness raising might be more helpful e.g. if the children go to your child's school, send an email to the head saying you've noticed some children arriving without car seats and could they send out some info about the law as well as the safety benefits - I do think some parents of currently primary-aged children are unaware of the fact the law changed in 2003 to say that children aged 3-12 need to use at the very least a booster seat (or full car seat) until they are 135cm tall. So they are aware of the need for babies and toddlers to use car seats, but primary aged children less so.

Anyone who had DC under 12 in 2003 and the next few years was probably aware of it because a lot was made of it in the news, shops etc at the time, but people who were already over age 12 themselves most likely didn't pay attention to this as it would not have affected them, and since it is now 22 years ago (!) it's no longer thought of as "news" but just assumed to be general knowledge, because anyone working in child safety/car seats/traffic law etc knows. But I think a lot of the general public are in a bit of a blind spot with it due to having been born before 1991.

I wouldn't report it as doesn't really affect me, and I doubt it would achieve anything. I would judge silently and just make sure my own child was never in a position to be in that person's car.