AIBU?
to expect a young baby to be driven in acar in a car seat!!!!
hitchcock · 12/04/2007 16:04
just come home and saw the most unbelivable thing! car with 4 kids in the back off it 1 passagenger in the front on her lap HOLDING on to the car seat that had a young baby in it .!!!!
the baby had no seat belt round it so it would have been seriously hurt if there had been a crash and as for the kids in the back not one of them had a bloody seat belt on.
thought it was law now that any child under 11 had to be in a boster seat and straped in???
IdreamofClooney · 12/04/2007 16:09
I would have taken the registration number and reported them to the police!
That is shocking. There is no point in hold a car seat in your arms - unless it is properly secured it will just go flying inthe event of a crash.
I really cannot believe that anyone could be so irresponsible with a child;s safety.
Makes me MAD grrrrrr
luckylady74 · 12/04/2007 16:14
it is the law but i see this all the time in my area - the adults with their belts on really annoy mme too - children don't count - i think some cultures think it's not macho [it was the case my dh saidwhen he lived abroad] and some people appply the i didn't when iwas a child arguments. they are all twonks!
3andnomore · 12/04/2007 16:16
Clairmow...didn't really get your post, sorry!
To OP...grrr...people that are that irresponsible do make me mad.
I really don't understand why p[eople think that if you only do it as a once off or whatever that amkes it alright then...bloody no good though if that once is also that once you have a accident!
Must say, I rather would refuse a lift then travelling unsafe...however, I also realise that without knowing the whole situation, it's difficult to judge why they did it...but I know plenty of people who do this and don't think nothing wrong with it etc...
clairemow · 12/04/2007 16:22
3andnomore, I was just trying to think if there was ever any situation when carrying a baby like that might be acceptable (or having that many other children in the back - who can't have been strapped in). The only thing I could think of was if someone in the car was badly injured and they were going to hospital, but then I thought no, you would call an ambulance in that situation.
I was really responding to hitchcock's second post, but there were other posts in between so it looked like my "no" was in response to her q. that wasn't it law now that children had to be strapped in. Look at my original post - first response to hitchcock.
Ramble, ramble, explaining myself v. badly!!!
IdreamofClooney · 12/04/2007 16:22
I would NEVER take DS in a car without a proper car seat.
People often look at me like I'm nuts when I refuse a lift (I don;t have a car) but I would rather walk ten miles in the pouring rain pushing my buggy than accept a lift with no car seat (perhaps I am nuts)
I jsut cannot understand why people would do that, even when DS was very ill and I had to take him to the out of hours doctor I made sure that the car seat was properly strapped into the taxi
Upwind · 12/04/2007 16:23
Not something I would do myself but having lived in developing countries where you can see five children clinging to a motorbike, back of a trailer, etc. It is hard to get upset about it.
Sure it is dangerous but so is walking alongside a busy road or having potentially lethal medicines and cleaning products in a house with children.
3andnomore · 12/04/2007 16:33
kks, hm...doesn't amtter though how slow you drive or how close you live....if someone drives into you at high speed , how slow you went won't really come into that so much
I personally think it's NOT worth the risk...if you live that near,then there is no need to use the car if you don't have the seat, surely?
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