This really really gets to me!! I worked in a day care center - in the infant room - where we had the joy of knowing one little girl from the time she was six weeks old! She was a happy chubby little baby and was really just starting to explore her world when at 7 months her mother, little brother - in a car seat - and a couple of other people were going somewhere. Well I guess they didn't have time to make two trips or get another car or just NOT go - she decided it would be alright for her 13 year old niece to hold her in the FRONT seat and they were hit!! The baby is the only one who died!!We all took it soooo hard!! Then someone had the nerve to say that she saved that 13 year old's life because she took the impact
I go crazy when I see people get into cars and not put babies in the proper restraints!! I was just in a car accident myself - minor - but my daughter hurt her back some and I hurt my neck and we WERE absolutely wearing our seatbelts - it could have been so much worse without them!! Take the time put your kids in belts, seats, boosters - SOMETHING and don't let anyone under 12 or under 80 pounds sit in front!!