Was IBU for phoning the police?

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Walking back from the school run, a woman was driving down the road, with her daughter in the front seat (child about 6 or 7) with no car seat or seatbelt on, and she had to slam on her brakes and the child hit the windscreen and cracked it

She got out of the car, checked the windscreen and got back in and drove off, didnt even put the seat belt around her daughter.

I wrote down her number plate and phoned the police, the call handler/police officer said that it will be logged.

I am so FFS car seats are not that expensive for 6/7 yr olds.

The dog walked off up the road

Truly awful. You did the right thing. Not sure I'd have the presence of mind to remember the registration. Please update us if you hear anything about the little girl. I hope she is ok.

YANBU

What was the girl doing in the 30 seconds or so that the woman was checking ?

Seems odd that even with an emergency stop, that someone would be thrown forward so forcefully they would crack the windscreen.

i am not sure what the girl was doing.

NO, you were not BU.

Shit, that's really bad.

Cracked the windscreen? Surely her head or whatever part of her hit it must also be cracked?? Poor kid. F*ing idiotic mother.

Poor girl, you def did right to call the police.
When I was 17 I cracked the windscreen in my dads car with my head. I was bruised but not concussed or injured badly

tbh if she cant look after the kid enough to ensure safety with a seat belt, there is nothing to say she has looked after the car. it is possible that the window already had a chip or small crack which was made larger by an impact, even a smallish one.

Hoping the kid is ok though.

Absolutely the right thing to do in this case. Police will probably go around and warn her to be more careful in future, putting appropriate fear of god into her, and you may have prevented a worse injury in the future.

Crikey. YANBU. Poor child.

Are you sure it was definitely a child? Not a dummy like ResusciAnnie or something

YANBU, imo, well done for being a proper nice person :)

Sounds awful. I don't think you can know for sure that the little girl's head cracked the windscreen - the crack could have been there already. But in a way, that's irrelevant. She undoubtedly had a very nasty knock to her head.

You def did the right thing. So frustrating for something like that to happen when it could so easily be avoided. I hope she's ok.

Of course you did the right thing. Bloody hell. Are people really that self absorbed that they risk their child's life? Please follow this up.

FFS she checked the windscreen and not her child? Bloody hell.

Surely the child was crying?

I have a neighbour that drives around with her two year old son unrestrained in the front seat, and they have a carseat in the back. Fucking idiots.

there are mothers at my dcs school who think its ok to travel with more children than seats available, and after talking to some mothers this afternoon, I was told 'well mine wont sit in the car seat what am I supposed to do?'

I didnt hear the little girl crying but the door was not open long enough. When the car drove past me there was not a crack in the windscreen, or at least not a 'spiders web' type crack anyway.

God no! I was once a passenger in a 4x4, so high up, and a car pulled up alongside us at traffic lights. The bloke driving had a very young baby lying across his lap. I was stunned to see it.

I took his reg number and called the police. They called me back later to say that they had visited him at home, where he had denied having done what I'd seen but couldn't produce a car seat for the child. They told him that he would be pulled over every time a patrol car saw his car out on the road and that Social Services would be coming round to check he had a car seat within the next week. Not sure that they should have been so forthcoming about what action they'd taken but I was very pleased they were.

Well done, OP.

YANBU tots, you ok?

Sounded awful. And I knwo what you mean about some of the mums driving with unrestrained kids, makes me very

No way!!!! YANBU!!! But she was. What a dreadful woman!!!

OP, have you found out anything more about the incident ?

It sounded as though she was driving her DD to the school you were walking back from.

No not heard anything, she was driving away from the school i was walking home from, and i would of recognised her, its a small school in that everyone knows everyone else.

I did keep an eye out for the car this morning when walking home, but didnt see it. But thinking about it would she have been able to get the windscreen fixed that quickly?

I hope the police managed to have a word with her, and that she got her little girl checked out.

So they were driving up the road ?