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Now that the child car seat law has been in action for a short time, how many parents have bought the right car seat for their children and enforced their use? For that matter, how many parents think fags are more important than proper and safe restraints?
How can people treat children in this way?
As an HGV driver we see parents all the time letting their kids be used as a tool of abuse by not belting them up in a proper child car seat. I see so many parents smoking, a fag hanging out of their mouths and no seat belts, using a phone and looking to park as close to the school gates as possible.
Now let's think for a moment at the price of 20 fags for 3 or 4 days and you then have the money to buy a proper restraint for the most precious thing in your life. My kids are the most precious and expensive things to me, so the small price of forking out for the child car seat is miniscule compared to their safety.
Children do not make very good airbags
How can people treat children in this way? They do not make very good airbags because they tend to burst on impact. I suppose that a child not in a legal car seat is the same as CHILD ABUSE, but there again so is smoking and by doing so giving your children the worst possible start to their lives anyway! Some parents just don't deserve to have children.
Also, I have also noticed that the parents in question (and their children) are nearly all overweight. I have heard that cigarettes were often used by some people as kind of appetite suppressant to help them loose a few pounds - so what went wrong there? It's clearly not working!
By: Andy
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stuart keith, I agree with you 100%, i'm pregnant with my 3rd and there is no way i'm going to even attempt to put in a 3rd car seat, it is more dangerous than just letting your child use a lap belt, by law you are allowed to let the oldest child if over 3 to sit in the middle with a lap belt, so if the law says its safe then who am I to complain
28/01/11 claire1986
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02/01/11 wallerz
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My sister went into Kaleidoscope in Scarborough to buy a new belt pad for a car booster seat, and when asked how old her child was (5), the member of staff went mad and told my sister that her daughter should be in a booster seat, she should have a full seat until 11, and was blatantly accused of being an incompetent mother.
She had been told by North Yorkshire Police at a Safety Day that her daughter was old enough to go in one at 4. Kaleidoscope also SELLS booster seats, and on the label it says 3-11.
Who are they anyway to say my sister is an incompetent mother?! They obviously haven't seen how she is with her kids...
25/10/10 Mela76
She had been told by North Yorkshire Police at a Safety Day that her daughter was old enough to go in one at 4. Kaleidoscope also SELLS booster seats, and on the label it says 3-11.
Who are they anyway to say my sister is an incompetent mother?! They obviously haven't seen how she is with her kids...
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After reading your notice I laughed, but the sad thing is you are spot on right.
26/07/08 leah
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These laws are geting sillier by the day. honestly its pathetic I am under 5ft but luckily coz I am 14 I dont have to have a booster seat. yay me.
12/06/08 gawjusslilmex
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I'm only 5ft 2, some 12 year olds are taller than me, so should I be driving around with a booster seat?
05/02/08 short&middleaged
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Manufacturers do not appear to make booster seats that fit the middle back seat. I have 3 small children and can not afford an mpv. The majority of cars middle back seat is narrow. The law says I must have a child seat for all my children. However I have hunted high and low to no avail. has anyone overcome this problem?
23/09/07 Jaks
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help please we cannot seem to find a car seat that fits a zafira???
thanks martyn
28/07/07 mfa5
thanks martyn
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Dadof3 - sorry if I upset you, but I just see facts as being, well, facts. Fact is, it IS dangerous to allow children to travel in a car without a child seat. And the middle seat belt in the back IS extremely dangerous and virtually useless as a life saver unless used with a special child seat designed for use with the middle belt - it is just like a hard pad of foam and from memory has two sort of handle things at the side through which the lap belt fits. The lap belts is NOT safe for children at all unless used with one of these special pad thingies. Even for adults the lap belt is very unsafe because in an accident it will rip into your guts, but is better than nothing. For young children it is lethal unless used with a lap belt seat as described above.
21/07/07 Nikki
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I am shocked and appalled by the attitude of DevonGirl and Nikki. So only the smug and wealthy should be allowed to have 3 children? You are the ones with the old-fashioned attitudes - eugenics is an idea that had its day but it was pretty much knocked on the head in the sickening smell of burning flesh in a bunker in Berlin in 1944. How fortunate I am to live in a State where I was not castrated after having two children on the basis that my back seat doesn't have three 3-point restraints.
Oh, and one little point of law here: it is perfectly legal to carry a child with a lap belt in the middle seat if the other 2 rear seats are occupied with child seats. It is clearly not as safe as using a booster seat, but no, Nikki, lapbelts are not virtually useless. They would not be fitted otherwise. FYI the child I "choose" to sit in that position is my eldest, heaviest child, in accordance with government guidelines, because she is the one who would best be protected in that position in the event of a crash, and not because I'd quite like her dead, Nikki.
The fact is that we deal with risks every minute we are alive. My children and I could all be killed in our car, seatbelts or no seatbelts. We could be killed crossing the road, on a train, falling downstairs. Like any other parent, I do my best to avoid or mitigate those risks with the means that I have at my disposal. In fact, I stumbled into this forum looking for car seats that can be fitted using a lap belt. However, I am not going to say that family life must halt until I've saved enough to buy a Zafira or found a seat that fits. Everyone on this forum takes the same approach, or none of you would leave your homes, and Nikki certainly wouldn't go around throwing herself off horses. So let's have less of this holier-than-thou attitude please.
21/07/07 Dadof3
Oh, and one little point of law here: it is perfectly legal to carry a child with a lap belt in the middle seat if the other 2 rear seats are occupied with child seats. It is clearly not as safe as using a booster seat, but no, Nikki, lapbelts are not virtually useless. They would not be fitted otherwise. FYI the child I "choose" to sit in that position is my eldest, heaviest child, in accordance with government guidelines, because she is the one who would best be protected in that position in the event of a crash, and not because I'd quite like her dead, Nikki.
The fact is that we deal with risks every minute we are alive. My children and I could all be killed in our car, seatbelts or no seatbelts. We could be killed crossing the road, on a train, falling downstairs. Like any other parent, I do my best to avoid or mitigate those risks with the means that I have at my disposal. In fact, I stumbled into this forum looking for car seats that can be fitted using a lap belt. However, I am not going to say that family life must halt until I've saved enough to buy a Zafira or found a seat that fits. Everyone on this forum takes the same approach, or none of you would leave your homes, and Nikki certainly wouldn't go around throwing herself off horses. So let's have less of this holier-than-thou attitude please.
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I am shocked and appalled by the attitude of DevonGirl and Nikki. So only the smug and wealthy should be allowed to have 3 children? You are the ones with the old-fashioned attitudes - eugenics is an idea that had its day but it was pretty much knocked on the head in the sickening smell of burning flesh in a bunker in Berlin in 1944. How fortunate I am to live in a State where I was not castrated after having two children on the basis that my back seat doesn't have three 3-point restraints.
Oh, and one little point of law here: it is perfectly legal to carry a child with a lap belt in the middle seat if the other 2 rear seats are occupied with child seats. It is clearly not as safe as using a booster seat, but no, Nikki, lapbelts are not virtually useless. They would not be fitted otherwise. FYI the child I "choose" to sit in that position is my eldest, heaviest child, in accordance with government guidelines, because she is the one who would best be protected in that position in the event of a crash, and not because I'd quite like her dead, Nikki.
The fact is that we deal with risks every minute we are alive. My children and I could all be killed in our car, seatbelts or no seatbelts. We could be killed crossing the road, on a train, falling downstairs. Like any other parent, I do my best to avoid or mitigate those risks with the means that I have at my disposal. In fact, I stumbled into this forum looking for car seats that can be fitted using a lap belt. However, I am not going to say that family life must halt until I've saved enough to buy a Zafira or found a seat that fits. Everyone on this forum takes the same approach, or none of you would leave your homes, and Nikki certainly wouldn't go around throwing herself off horses. So let's have less of this holier-than-thou attitude please.
21/07/07 Dadof3
Oh, and one little point of law here: it is perfectly legal to carry a child with a lap belt in the middle seat if the other 2 rear seats are occupied with child seats. It is clearly not as safe as using a booster seat, but no, Nikki, lapbelts are not virtually useless. They would not be fitted otherwise. FYI the child I "choose" to sit in that position is my eldest, heaviest child, in accordance with government guidelines, because she is the one who would best be protected in that position in the event of a crash, and not because I'd quite like her dead, Nikki.
The fact is that we deal with risks every minute we are alive. My children and I could all be killed in our car, seatbelts or no seatbelts. We could be killed crossing the road, on a train, falling downstairs. Like any other parent, I do my best to avoid or mitigate those risks with the means that I have at my disposal. In fact, I stumbled into this forum looking for car seats that can be fitted using a lap belt. However, I am not going to say that family life must halt until I've saved enough to buy a Zafira or found a seat that fits. Everyone on this forum takes the same approach, or none of you would leave your homes, and Nikki certainly wouldn't go around throwing herself off horses. So let's have less of this holier-than-thou attitude please.
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You do not need to measure your child every week and most children with respect for themselves and their parents will gladly wear a seat belt and use a booster seat,stop reading your street cred into your childs NOY ROY.Explain to your other children and their friends why you killed the unrestrained child.
Freddie I think that you will find occasional use you do not need a booster seat but for the sake of £15 or so.................Get the drift.
21/06/07 andy
Freddie I think that you will find occasional use you do not need a booster seat but for the sake of £15 or so.................Get the drift.
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My 9 year old nephew had his first golf lesson last night. His grandad dropped him off there but was unable to wait so he asked me to collect him on my way home. I did so but realised that as I do not have children, and rarely need to take children anywhere, I do not have a child car seat. I made him sit in the back with a seatbelt on.
What else could I do? This law means I now have to go and buy a child booster seat 'just in case' I need to pick him up again. Bloody ridiculous!
Clearly somebody somewhere is making an awful lot of money!!!!
21/06/07 Freddie
What else could I do? This law means I now have to go and buy a child booster seat 'just in case' I need to pick him up again. Bloody ridiculous!
Clearly somebody somewhere is making an awful lot of money!!!!
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I Wouldn't