car seat safety - projectiles in the car

[kmac625]

Wow! So I had never heard of this before but a Mommy in one of my groups posted this article and I thought it was worth sharing with all of you. It seems extreme to get rid of everything in your car that could become a projectile in an accident, but I think I'm gonna go through ours and remove as much as I can.
https://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/12...m_source=facebook&utm_content=haskell_fanpage

 

[aragornlover8]

Thanks for posting this! I'd never thought of that.

 

[minties]

Wow that is scarey. Thanks for posting.

My friend is a deadly projectile - she refuses to wear her seatbelt as it makes her feel claustraphobic, so I don't go anywhere with her in the car any longer. Considering she weighs a good 100kg+!

 

[kmac625]

My dh is a drummer so our trunk is always full of music gear and the overflow ends out on the floor in the backseat. I'm gonna need to show him this article I think.

 

[kmac625]

Just bumping this because I posted it last night when most of you UK ladies were fast asleep.

 

[KayBea]

Im a clean freak so the only thing that can hit any of us is a tree airfreshner or 5...
Xx

 

[tommyg]

Oh how horrible for that poor kid. It's so easy to leave things that you don't think about it.

My Dad is a huge fan of never leaving anything on the parcel shelf of the car as years ago (in the days before head rests) he breaked suddenly and had a box of hankies fly of the back shelf hit him on the head and then it bounced of his friends arm who was in the passenger seat. He had a headache for the rest of the day and his mate had a huge bruse. Not nice for either of them.

 

[Jellycat]

Great article thanks - has made me think what I can do

 

[anna matronic]

Funnitly enough I was in Halfords today and was asking about carseats and he said that a box of tissues on your parcel shelf will have the force of a brick in a 30mph crash

 

[KayBea]

Funnitly enough I was in Halfords today and was asking about carseats and he said that a box of tissues on your parcel shelf will have the force of a brick in a 30mph crash

My friend drives me mad as she has her 5 month old in the front with her and OH sits behind LO with no seatbelt as it makes him feel ill.. So if a box of tissues is like a brick can you imagin what a human would be??

Xx

 

[anna matronic]

Do you remember that advert about seatbelts where the back passanger squashed and killed the front one.. Horrible

 

[sapphire1]

Funnitly enough I was in Halfords today and was asking about carseats and he said that a box of tissues on your parcel shelf will have the force of a brick in a 30mph crash

My SIL works in Halfords and told me all that stuff, it's so scary. I don't have anything loose in the car now.

 

[kmac625]

I can't imagine not wearing a seatbelt. I automatically put it on as soon as I'm in a car, even if all I'm doing is backing it onto the street from the driveway.

 

[KayBea]

I can't imagine not wearing a seatbelt. I automatically put it on as soon as I'm in a car, even if all I'm doing is backing it onto the street from the driveway.

I put mine on even if im just turning my car round in the driveway.. All there is to crash into is a plastic plant pot and a dead rose bush. Lol x

 

[Cat lady]

Wow, thanks for this. Its a good reminder for us all. We can all to easily 'it wont happen to us' about loads of things. Until one of those things happened to me, I didnt think things would happen to me. Now I dont leave anything to chance!!
...Enter paranoid mummy no 1!!!
xxx

 

[xemmax]

Thanks for posting this, hadn't even thought of it before.