To ask if you have "baby on board" sign?

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And if so, why? I have always assumed that it's a light-hearted warning to other motorists to explain why you may be driving more tentatively than other road users? If you have one, do you find them useful? I've no strong opinion on them either way, just interested in the general consensus!

As far as I’m aware the emergency services stuff is an urban myth.
I’ve got a 4mth old baby but definitely wouldn’t have a sign, I think the car seat and the actual baby in the back is enough evidence I have a baby.

"I believe they are supposed to alert emergency services to babies/children first?"

"As far as I’m aware the emergency services stuff is an urban myth"

Snopes tried to bottom this out and couldn't settle it one way or another.

If they did start out somewhere as an aide to emergency services (which they might have done) they rapidly lost that meaning and do not have it now.

Don't have one, it never crossed my mind to get one

I believe they are supposed to alert emergency services to babies/children first

As pp have said they make absolutely no difference whatsoever to the emergency services at the scene of an accident

They are for emergency services like PP have said. So in an accident they would look for a child/baby. It means you should only have it up if the child is in the car.

brown No they aren’t.

Just read full thread don't have a clue what they for then

They'd be in my room 101

Twee crap

brown They are for showing off, nothing else.

Jeezo Nick do you mean when you go to a rtc you don't immediately rush to the rear of the car to look for a BOB sign? Shocked I am, shocked

redglitter God knows how many babies I’ve probably left in fields over the years!

We had one as it came in the set with a mirror for watching baby, and the car window blinds.
It did go up in a PFB moment after two years of fertility issues, but it kept losing suction, and spent most of the time laying on the parcel shelf as we were not really bothered about it!

People should really be aware that they are just another gimmick, and of no use to emergency services.
I don't get the angst about them. There will always be things that other parents do that you would never consider. Some of those signs may be tacky, but they are harmless.

Nope. I just see them and cringe, don't get it at all - the 'princess on board ones' actually elicit an eye-roll from me (unless you are chauffeuring an actual princess, but I imagine the royals have slightly more class than that so probably don't bother!).

I always assumed they were a warning to there drivers that the owner of the sign was likely to be driving erratically, turning round in their seat to talk to children, rummaging in handbag looking for snaps, taking a selfie "on our way to the beach # makingmemories", searching for dropped toys etc. ...