Change in routine coupled with rear-facing car seats and parental exhaustion (common enough with parents of young kids) make a potentially lethal cocktail that cause me to suspend judgment.
Rear facing carseats kill.
They also save lives.
But it is a percentage game and bureaucrats, lawmakers, and cops should STFU.
Stop right there. That’s not an excuse. He is a father, not a robot. As a social worker, he may have been the one to throw the switch on other people’s parental rights, or similar life-altering decisions. Hope he gets fired and divorced, at the very least, quite aside from his legal woes.
Yes, I raised twins. Quite a challenge and you can forget where they are especially if they are asleep. Tragic.