If you saw someone driving their car down with a small child on their knee would you report them?

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Mid morning. Residential area. A man driving with a young child on his knee.

Either dad is crap at steering or he was letting small child "help" steer as they mounted two curbs as they went around corners.

Obviously no seatbelt around small child, not sure about dad.

Would you report this? Our area has a scheme where you can send in dash cam footage of dangerous driving to the police.

No let them be

Yes! Without hesitation!

Yes

Yes I would. Too many children die from things outside our control, no point adding to that number with the easily preventable.

Yes and I have when I witnessed it before with a child on a knee in a front passenger seat on a motorway and I’ve taken down the registration number and called 999 immediately.

Appalling and dangerous behaviour!

Yes i would

No I wouldn’t

Yes, dangerous for them, other road users and pedestrians. Stupid behaviour

Those saying no, why not? Genuinely interested in your reasoning @Largestlegocollectionever @MoorGirl

I am still thinking about a family I saw the other day-

Mum was in backseat with 3 toddlers and a baby on her lap-no seatbelts on any of them. I noticed because they were parked outside the corner shop and directly in my line of vision as I came out-just as they were pulling away. Toddlers climbing all over. They were gone before I could say anything but I don't think i would have anyway but it is still on my mind-

It just seemed so dangeous and negligent

Editing to say after reading this I think/wish I would have caught the number plate and reported it

I’d have called 999 at the time. Maybe not just for an unrestrained child (though that is appalling) but if child is on driver’s lap and he’s actually mounting kerbs he’s not in control of the car and I’d also query if he had a license and/or was drunk. I’d rather the police got him before he killed someone.

Mounting kerbs? Hell, yes.

@Dearoveri suppose I think it’s just harmless fun - but aware I am making assumptions that the car was crawling around an estate.

Absolutely I'd report it. The child is bad enough, but a pedestrian could have been hit.

Yes, without hesitation. I might even have called 999.

Yes I would and would also have called 999 as soon as I saw it. A child on drivers knee is bad enough, but the car was out of control mounting curbs. Very dangerous.

Not harmless fun if the car was mounting curbs though.

My SIL never puts her baby in the car seat for as many times they’ve visited us. Even on the motorway. They always take baby on the lap at the back with either the BIL or her to feed her milk bottle for the journey (that’s what they say). She’s nearly a year old now. DH has raised with them and with the grandparents but nobody thinks SIL is in the wrong. Until a day something horrible happens. Shudder to think so.

Yes I would report them. It’s totally unacceptable.

Absolutely. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't seen a child after they've been thrown into a windscreen. I have.

Yes, absolutely.

Although you’d get nowhere without evidence (I’m not clear if you have dash cam footage from your OP) Best you could hope for is that a knock on the guy’s door would scare him into not doing it again.

If you have footage, report it. It’s a bit of a cliche maybe, but looking after the welfare of kids is everyone’s job. There are so many cases of people who said nothing and a child ended up dead.

Absolutely. I called the non-emergency number to report 4 kids in the back of the car (not in car seats) and was told to call 999. Even if the parents don’t give a fuck about their child’s safety, I’d feel awful if anything happened to them and I could have prevented it.

Report him. It wouldn't take much of a collision with another car or bollard for the child to be killed going through the windscreen.

I don’t get why people ruminate and question these things. It’s not a big deal. Report it or don’t- what’s the difference to you apart from a phone call? You have no idea what’ll happen or not as a result. It’s just 3 minutes on the phone 🤷🏼‍♀️

If you can then yes, why not, though I've seen it before and not done anything because they went past too fast to get any meaningful details about the car.

If the airbag went off the child would be killed - it's much worse than letting them sit without a car seat.

But also most likely the police would have a stern word and do nothing else, so job done no harm caused.