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Originally posted by GKDarts@Oct 3 2005, 04:08 PM
As a parent and as someone who worked with a guy who critically injured his young daughter who ended up dieing 5 years later from a related surgery.....JUST DON"T DO THIS!!!!!!! Most accidents happen within a couple of miles from your home, so the 15 blocks is moot.
Its just one of those things that you don't mess with regardless of cost or inconvenience.
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I'm sorry about your co-worker, that is an awful story.
I guess my questions are though, was an airbag involved? Was there any factor, in particular about the child sitting in the front seat that caused such severe injuries? Would injury have been avoided or less severe by sitting in a rear seat?
There is some level of risk we all assume every time we put a child in a car. Various different cars provide various levels of safety. Would you be so harsh to someone driving their child a Chevy Astro, when they know that their occupants are about 4 to 5 times more likely to die in a crash as compared to the safest cars available? Or how about people who drive their kids around in SUVs that are 10 or 20 times more likely to rollover than mine? Which is the worse risk?
I guess no one here seems to do this, so it does seem obviously socially unacceptable, which is probably enough for me to not do it (I don't want to be the guy that every things is being reckless with his child). But nobody has convinced me that there is real evidence to suggest that this really is a dangerous practice, and not just something that people have accepted is wrong for whatever reason.