The unintended consequences of “car seat madness” and regulations mandated by some “well meaning” but stupid, know nothing bureaucrat.
When you were ALLOWED to put the seat in the FRONT SEAT folks never “forgot” that the kid was in the car.
BUT, the nanny crats didn’t like that idea. Kids got killed because Big Brother Mandated air bags crushed them.
I wonder how many kids really died before air bags and all this “good intention”.?
Seems more kids die from being burned up on a hot day, than ever flew through the windshield.
Seems the more the nanny crats tinker, the more kids die.
So you’re saying it’s the government’s fault she forgot her 2-year-old?
And no school administrator gets out without reaching over to the passenger seat for their papers or briefcase.
I don't buy the story.
The Law of Unintended Consequences always bites the nanny staters, usually to the detriment — and even death — of the citizens.
Oh please.
The fact that the kid was in the back seat has nothing to do with it.
If you have to have your kid in the seat next to you to remember that the child is in the car, something is really wrong.
Poor, defenseless little child. Carted off to day care so that Mommy can take care of other people’s kids. This Mommy has to be far more diligent in keeping track of the welfare of other people’s kids than she does her own. Such negligence would have resulted in a lawsuit BIG TIME and probably criminial negligence. But since it’s her own kid, oops, ‘it was a mistake.’
I have the solution that will end these mistakes forever!
I will mandate that all car manufacturers install (At a modest increase in manufacturing cost, but worth it, if it saves just ONE life...it’s for the children!) a circuit that will sound a loud, obnoxious alarm when a child carrier is still secured to the rear seats, when the engine is turned off or the driver’s door opens!
(SS)A Well Meaning Stupid Bureaucrat
Got some good points. Of course, once upon a time, no “seats” were required even to be bought to enrich Graco and all the other baby companies.
In "substantial compliance" with UN Agenda 21. (population control)
An awful lot of kids used to fly through windshields, before seatbelts existed.
But I agree with you about the government mandated airbags --airbags that were designed to stop a hypothetical app. 180 pound, 6 foot tall man who was not wearing a seat belt from going through the windshield.
Govt bureaucrats knew that airbags designed to those specifications would, predictably, kill a certain number of children (as well as adults of small stature).
I believe there should have been prosecutions of those bureaucrats who approved --and mandated-- that airbag design.