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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Gas Can Or Child - What is more valuable?
(CNN) -- It must have been a valuable gas can.
A Colorado driver drew the ire of many after she strapped a gas can to a child car seat -- but left a toddler in a diaper restrained only with a lap belt.
A police officer in the city of Aurora who stopped the driver during a routine "Click it or Ticket" seat belt enforcement check snapped a photo of what he saw.
A mother was cited in Aurora, Colorado, after authorities found her toddler in a lap belt and a gas can in a child safety seat.
The Colorado Department of Transportation posted the photo on its Facebook with a message that read:
"Unbelievable! This heartbreaking photo was taken by an officer... Share it to remind everyone that life is precious, so please be responsible and make sure children are properly restrained in the appropriate child safety seat."
By Wednesday morning, angry readers flooded the page with more than 200 comments and more than 600 others had re-posted it on their pages.
"Sadly this photo seems to say that the parents think that gas is more valuable than the little one!" one comment read.
Another said: "The poor child. What if they got into an accident? That baby can't be older then 2 years old."
The woman told police that the child frequently unbuckled his seat belt, CNN affiliate KUSA reported.
An officer asked the mother if the child also frequently grabbed a gas can, buckled it into a car seat and then buckled himself in a seat next to the gas can.
The woman, the affiliate said, had no answer.
The mother was ticketed for seat beat violations, a car seat violation and other traffic offenses, the affiliate reported.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Infant Seat Safety - Keep them REAR Facing!
- “But his feet are so long, he has to bend them while sitting rear facing, isn’t that dangerous? No! There is no health risk associated with sitting with bent knees, and it does not affect the safety of the car seat.
- “But he cries when he can’t see me and it’s hard for me to console him” Would you rather him cry out of annoyance, or you be the one crying if g-d forbid he was injured in a crash?
- “My child gets motion sickness facing backwards.” Most kids who get car sick facing backwards will also get car sick facing forward.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
St. Moritz Alert
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Infant dies after falling from shopping cart.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said a three month old infant died after falling from a grocery shopping cart Tuesday.
Police say the infant was secured in his carrier but not secured to the seat in the cart when the carrier tipped over.
That's because, they say, there was nowhere for the carrier to latch onto.
The incident happened in the Kroger parking lot on Forsyth Road.
Jones calls it, "a terrible accident," and says the three month old was in an infant carrier on the top of a shopping cart when the cart hit a speed breaker.
Macon Police say a Kroger employee who was friends with the child's mother, was pushing the cart when the infant fell. The three were on their way out of the store just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Dr. Jason Smith with Primary Pediatrics says they see at least ten accidents from shopping carts every year, and he says when it comes to the buggies, always err on the side of caution.
"We also see a lot of accidents like this that happen where car seats fall from an elevated spot, whether it be a counter top or something else," says Dr. Jones, "And just, you know, a reminder to definitely make sure that we're not putting it at a high spot and that includes a shopping cart."
The American Association of Pediatrics has a list of rules when it comes to kids and shopping carts, but Dr. Smith says it's best to keep infant carriers in strollers that have a latch that will hold that carrier in place.
"If you're not able to do that, I always tell parents here to put it inside the actual basket of the cart. It's just a safer place for it to be," he says.
Macon Police also describe what happened as a tragic accident and say so far no charges are pending.
Bibb County Corner Leon Jones says the infant was immediately taken to Coliseum Northside Hospital and later to The Medical Center of Central Georgia, where he was pronounced dead at the pediatric intensive care unit around 4:03 p.m.
Bibb County Corner Leon Jones says the infant was immediately taken to Coliseum Northside Hospital and later to The Medical Center of Central Georgia, where he was pronounced dead at the pediatric intensive care unit around 4:03 p.m.
Kroger's Atlanta division issued this statement: "Our deepest sympathy and most sincere, heartfelt thoughts go to the family during this time, and Kroger is fully cooperating with the local investigation."
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Horrible Story
This is a very relevant story, especially in lakewood. I see young children jumping around the back of moving cars all the time.
MARICOPA, AZ - Police have identified a 3-year-old boy who died Monday night after falling out a window of a moving vehicle in Maricopa.
At a Tuesday press conference, Maricopa Police Chief Melvin identified the young boy as Quincy Tyrese Chapman-Gray.
According to LaTricia Woods with Maricopa Police, the incident happened around 5:30 p.m. on Anthony Boulevard near Bowlin Road.
Initial reports indicated the boy fell out of the rear passenger window of the Ford Explorer onto the roadway.
According to initial information from Woods, the boy's two older siblings, ages 4 and 5, were also in the back seat, and all three children were not wearing seatbelts.
But Melvin said Tuesday police are not sure where the child was located in the car and they are doing a reconstruction of the accident to learn more about what happened.
The boy was transported to Maricopa Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
Police were interviewing the boy's mother, 40-year-old Angelica Chapman, late Monday night. Chapman was reportedly driving the SUV at the time of the incident.
According to Melvin, Chapman's children are not in the care of their parents at this time.
Police said Tuesday an active investigation is underway.
Further details have not been released.
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/maricopa/pd%3A-3-year-old-falls-out-of-moving-car%2C-dies-in-maricopa