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Child in an improperly installed car seat (Image: Peter Kieper)
Families with heat-induced cabin fever may take to the roads this weekend. Before you do, please read this (excerpted here):
…it may surprise you that car seats can actually be responsible for many injuries in children. Young children, especially infants, have weak spines and necks, so even a sharp stop can cause injury if a car seat is installed incorrectly. [Read more...]
(8/09) One gray morning last week my daughter and I were in a terrible car accident. My beautiful four year old and I careened off the road at between 60 and 70 miles an hour. We launched through a guardrail and began to roll. I don’t know how many times.Then, in a quiet field in rural Texas, motion stopped.
Most of this I know because it has been told to me. I have been told that my car and another collided along the highway. We were traveling the speed limit, but that was fast. I lost control of my SUV.
I lost control.
My baby was in the car. [Read more...]
KidsAndCars.org says:
Even the best of parents or caregivers can overlook a sleeping baby in a car; and the end result can be injury or even death.
Yet everytime we hear of one of these harrowing deaths — and there are about 38 of them every year – we also hear a chorus of disbelieving parents shouting malice. How could you forget your baby in the car?
It could happen to anyone. Really, it could. It could happen to you. [Read more...]
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