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kbholm@... wrote:

> This must be true! Doubt if my mum would have had 4 if there had been

> car safety regulations at the time!

There's a mum in 's class who drives her daughter to and from school

without a car seat. The little girl normally stands in the back between the

2 front seats. My heart turns over every time I see them. I have had 2

accidents on the route she comes to school, both at times of the day that are

a lot less busy than school run time, and a child standing in the back would

have been thrown through the window. I'm still trying to work out how to say

something without appearing to be an interfering busy body!

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In message , Dick

writes

>I'm still trying to work out how to say

>something without appearing to be an interfering busy body!

Loud (ish) conversation in earshot with friend about child who is safe

following a minor car crash because of its car seat.

I'm sure someone here can help.

(I'm a car seat nut re: the weight of child, after a friend lost her 9

month old niece following a rear shunt - mum had put her child in a

forward facing seat 'because the HV said I should now she's 9 months'.

But as said child wasn't sufficiently heavy the inertia on the seat belt

didn't kick in until the seat had gone forward some inches and the child

hit its head on the back of the seat in front. Coroner mentioned

'incorrect choice of car seat' in his report.)

Yours,

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Helen Armfield

helen@...

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We have a police schools liaison officer who comes in to talk to the

pupils - do you have one ? perhaps you could mention it?

Or talk to the head teacher - mention your concerns - perhaps see if he

thinks you could get a police officer to come and hang around at going

home time.... I nkow it is not technically the school`s responsibility

but he/she may have wise words.

Barbara

> There's a mum in 's class who drives her daughter to and from

school without a car seat. >

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<<<> There's a mum in 's class who drives her daughter to and from

school without a car seat. > >>>

Two mums at Phoebe's playgroup who doesn't bother strapping their kids into the

car either .. what really annoys me there is that they both drive top of the

range 4 wheeler cars with expensive leather car seats in they just can't be

bothered to strap kids in..

Someone said something about their little one being funny about going into seat

at the mo (what kid has not gone through that stage?? ) and one of the mums said

Oh well I just don't bother when he is in that mood.. I stood there thinking. I

don't CARE what mood my child is in certain things are NOT in their power to

decide and whether or not they are in a car seat securely fastened when we drive

is one of them.. (just like I refuse to drive anyone anyplace without them

having their seatbelt on)...

sorry hit a nerve I guess ... I was in a car crash last year with Phoebe and

Eloisa in the back.. ambulance driver said that it was a good thing that I had

Eloisa in a back facing seat still (she was heavy and old enough for foreword

facing seat but I had one that could both and had kept her back facing for some

reason).. as he did would have thought she would have had one very bad whiplash

injury if she had been facing the other way.. ( as it was I had the whiplash

injury and it still bothers me to this day from time to time I can feel my neck

is not as strong as it was before.)

Lonnie

mama to Phoebe and Eloisa and expecting a Christmas delivery..

When the jar is always full of biscuits

What's the fun in biscuits??