How do you guys feel about the booster seat laws being put in place?

[cthrash1]

I feel to a point it makes sense...As far as, the boosters make the seatbelt placement at a safer site for the child... DH was in a head on collision when we lived in TN and there was a 6yr old in a shoulder/seatbelt in the back seat(no booster)...The shoulder part tightened the lap part during impact. He was in intensive care for almost 2 months and stayed a total of 3 months in the hospital...The seatbelt almost sliced him in two on the inside, his liver was sliced but repaired itself, ruptured spleen and lost one kidney. The police officer at the scene said they really need to do something about the belts because they are dangerous for an adult as well if the collision is strong enough.

 

[PotterWatch]

Did you know that by sitting in the back seat and not wearing your seatbelt that you are actually endangering the lives of the people in front as well as your own? If you get into a collision and are in the back seat without a seatbelt, your body can fly up over the front seat, hit the person in front of you and break their neck. My husband has seen that more than a few times as well.


*Edited to add: I am not trying to be arguementative or snarky by saying the above. Lots of people who don't wear a seatbelt when sitting in the back don't realize they aren't only endangering themselves.

 

[WriterofWords]

After so many years of working with children with TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury because of reasons such as I'm reading on here about not wanting to be dictated to by the government I have to ask you this:
If it were your idea instead of the government's, would you be more willing to do it? To defy it just because the government says you have to do it is a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face, except it isn't your face going through the windshield.

 

[astylishgirl]

I am 100% for car seat and booster seat laws. I made my kids ride in a booster seat long after other parents let their kids be in a normal seat belt. Though I let them quit before they were as old as this law would have liked for them to be.

I guess I don't mind the seat belt laws either. But at the same time, I don't love government intervention. It makes me crazy to see people on motorcyles riding without a helmet. I understand that they enjoy the freedom and the air on their face or whatever... But when I see them, I think of the people that I have known that were killed. And I think how a small thing like head protection could save their lives.

 

[okiron]

Oh and we'll have to buy a new car within the next couple months or so because our car can't fit a convertible seat in correctly.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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When I met my husband I already had our two oldest. We found out the hard way that Mustangs and infant seats do NOT mix!!! LOL He immediately traded for a "family" car and we also got a mini-van. ROFL Poor guy, he went from the Mustang to the Mini-van literally......and has not regretted it for one second.

 

[okiron]

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When I met my husband I already had our two oldest. We found out the hard way that Mustangs and infant seats do NOT mix!!! LOL He immediately traded for a "family" car and we also got a mini-van. ROFL Poor guy, he went from the Mustang to the Mini-van literally......and has not regretted it for one second.

Haha sounds like us. He has a Nissan 240 right now.

 

[#1California Chick]

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The problem is that if they don't have enought insurance and/or money to pay the HUGE hospital bills that result from not using car seat (or helmets or seat belts)-- then I will have to pay their bills via taxes or higher insurance!!! I don't have a choice!!! So I think that I DO have a right to insist that they use GOOD SENSE to keep their families safe.

When their loved one is lying in the hospital and you tell them -- "Sorry we can't do anymore for your loved one -- because you CHOSE to not to use seat belts/booster seats/ car seats" - how do you think that that will be received????

Thirty years ago seat belts were not easily accepted. Yet they have save hundreds of thousands of lives since. Millions of people would have had completely different lives if their loved ones had been killed (including not even being born!!).

Cindy

 

[okiron]

#1California Chick :

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The problem is that if they don't have enought insurance and/or money to pay the HUGE hospital bills that result from not using car seat (or helmets or seat belts)-- then I will have to pay their bills via taxes or higher insurance!!! I don't have a choice!!! So I think that I DO have a right to insist that they use GOOD SENSE to keep their families safe.

When their loved one is lying in the hospital and you tell them -- "Sorry we can't do anymore for your loved one -- because you CHOSE to not to use seat belts/booster seats/ car seats" - how do you think that that will be received????

Thirty years ago seat belts were not easily accepted. Yet they have save hundreds of thousands of lives since. Millions of people would have had completely different lives if their loved ones had been killed (including not even being born!!).

Cindy

Not well received but it'd be a great way to enforce the law if they wanted to.​

 

[jojomojo]

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Actually, its just the opposite. If a law says that a child no longer needs a booster once 7 AND over 4'9", both must be met. So if a child hits 7 and is only 4'5", they've still got a ways to go. Similar to the standard law that an infant must be 20 lbs AND 1 year before forward facing. If you've got an 18 lb 1 yr old (or a 25 lb 10 month old), you've still got a ways to go. (If I misunderstood what you were saying, I apologize.)

I'm not one for government intrusion, but I am all for carseat/booster laws. We just turned my 2 yr old forward facing a few months ago. My 5 yr old is still in a 5 pt harness (his seat is a monstrosity though!). My 11 yr old is still in a booster.