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Moms View Message Board: Parenting Discussion: Archive January-June 2005: Being a car seat fanatic paid off for this parent!
I love stories like this!
That is amazing. I was behind a car once that ran a red light and plowed into an SUV doing about 45 mph and flipped that SUV also. The kids were older about 9 or 10 but they were hanging upside down by their seatbelts. thank God for seatbelts and parents who take the time to make sure they put them on or are put in their seats correctly! This does make me think, though, that SUV are not really safe as far as flipping goes. yikes!
Wow, that's great that they weren't hurt. Yikes, about the SUV flipping over, though!
I know how important safety seats are. When my #2 was about 3 my husband fell asleep at the wheel and rear ended another car and the car behind us slammed into us. A can of beans flew from the back of the station wagon and hit me in the head and then cracked the windshield, that was how hard we hit. I thank God we were all in seat belts and my then 7 yo wasnt hurt at all (in no car seat, didnt know then that they had to be in a car seat until they realized that older kids needed to be car seated too), and my 3 yo only suffered from seatbelt burn. I know as big as that wagon was that if we had not been belted that dh and I would have been seriously injured hitting the dash and windshield and the two boys would probably been thrown into the windshield or into the back of the bench seat and seriously injured or killed. As the cars get more fragile IMO the importance of proper safety belts become so much more necessary.
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