[miss marmelstein]

I’ll get hammered for this as well but in the old days when mom had the kids IN THE FRONT SEAT this rarely happened.

[Kozak]

Yeah.. instead they got killed in car wrecks. Wonderful “solution”.

[Texas Eagle]

I won't hammer you because I think the same thing. Of course, the front seat comes with its own potential dangers.

You want to see what triggers FReepers? Watch what happens when I say this:

Why was he taking the kids to day care in the first place? Why didn't one of the parents, preferably the mom, stay home and raise them?

[rlmorel]

There is a part of the whole “It’s for the CHILDREN” crowd that makes me grit my teeth, that results in the tightening of the virtual safety fence we place around them as they grow.

Some things are good, but some of them are just asinine, as if common sense simply isn’t allowed to factor in.

I was recently involved in a traumatic accident, and even though I was unhurt and it wasn’t my fault (IMO) I will carry it the rest of my life. So it will be with this guy.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ll bet that this is a *huge* story around your way.

[Hieronymus]

Thank you.

I hate rear facing car-seats, but you have an even better point if one wants to go nuts over the 40 or so deaths like this that occur every year.

Most mandatory safety stuff has upsides and downsides. When people suffer from the downside, they are in effect paying an immense price for someone else’s immense benefit.

Stuff happens. Opting to take precautions against one thing opens one’s self up to vulnerabilities from other angles.

[redfreedom]

I’m not one to hammer on you. On a recent trip we read two road signs saying to put kids in the back seat. I could not figure out why. If safely strapped in, I cannot see the difference. Then what about a pickup truck that does not have a second seat in the rear?

This is a rotten affair all the way around. Of course it’s sad the kids had to die. But it is also sad this guy had a mental disconnect and simply forgot about them.

As a vet, I can understand this guys disconnect. I used to have them and called them “mental skips”. This man now has double the mental torture. The hell of war going on inside his head, and now being the cause of his own kids deaths.

[GailA]

Very true. Our new car has a Warning ping if you put even a 1 lb item in the back seat. Chevy Malibu high end one.

[Balding_Eagle]

“I’ll get hammered for this as well but in the old days when mom had the kids IN THE FRONT SEAT this rarely happened.”

You are so right it was worth repeating.

Airbags are the reason kids have to be in back, but it’s worth noting that airbags can also kill, as they undoubtedly did here.