[14810] in APO-L
Car seats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Echlov)
Tue Aug 6 22:54:37 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:50:41 -0400
Reply-To: Elliot Echlov <CFKnights@INFOAVE.NET>
From: Elliot Echlov <CFKnights@INFOAVE.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Please forgive me if this is depressing and off-topic, but I think this
is too important not to post.....
About a month ago, I had to take an employee at my company to the
hospital for a workplace injury. While we were waiting for him to be
discharged, a family of four, victims in an auto accident, were brought
in. Three had only minor injuries. The fourth, a 10-month old infant,
had head injuries and numerous cuts and bruises. Because the local
hospital doesn't have physicians who specialize in infant trauma, he was
airlifted to one that does. When he was being taken out to the
helicopter, he was crying loudly...usually a good sign.
A friend (the employee's supervisor) called me tonight and said that the
infant died over the weekend from the injuries. He read the obituary in
the local paper.
What I have not told you up to this point is that the baby was not in a
car seat. He was sitting in his mother's lap in the front seat. When
the accident occurred, he was thrown through the windshield.
I know nearly everyone who reads this post either has or knows someone
who has a small child or infant. I don't ask that you recount this
story to them, but please, please, make sure that when that child is in
the car, that he or she is in a car seat and restrained. There are few
things in this world that are worse than a dead child, especially when
that death could have been prevented by a little common sense.
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