Reply #22: We lived, plenty didn't

[skygazer]

When I was a kid, another neighbor kid was terribly injured in a car accident when he was thrown from the back seat through the windshield and into the road, landing on his head. He was about 9 at the time and suffered severe brain damage. It wasn't a major accident - had he been wearing a seatbelt, he probably would have been fine. A friend of my mother's lost her baby who was only a couple of months old when their car rolled. Would she have lived if she'd been in a carseat? I don't know but I suspect she would have.

I'm always bemused by these types of remarks - is it better if we just let our kids run loose and take their chances? I don't advocate tying kids up to keep them safe but since child restraints have been proven time and again to save lives (and since their legally required in most, if not all, states) why not use them?