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Two seater car with no back seat = no need for car seat?????

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Posted 02/06/2012
I think they are completely wrong in doing it, however, according to the office at our car seat class technicaly it is not illegal. All of the seat belts in the vehicle must be in use. If they meet that criteria then not having the baby in a car seat unfortunately may be legal.

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Posted 02/13/2012

I normally wouldn't "judge" someone's non-conformist lifestyle either, but this needs to be reported to the police. It's just as bad - or worse than - letting someone drive away from your house drunk. The dad is obviously a moron, and the mom - even if she goes along with his opinion, is more responsible because she's willfully endangering the child. 

Posted 02/13/2012

PS:  get yourselves a different car! And don't tell me you can't afford it. There are plenty of cheap but bigger and safer cars out there. Dad needs to grow up.

Posted 03/12/2012

WOW. It is illegal. Child safety seats are required in ALL 50 STATES for ALL children under 3. It's not a question of law even, it's a question of should those people be having children?!  Dad, dump the sports car and get something with a backseat. If they can't even use that much common sense, what are they doing having kids? I guarantee your childs life is worth more than the 15K you'd spend for a cheap car - with a backseat - and 100 bucks for a carseat! How ignorant to think you could hold onto your child in a collision - that child will be ripped from her arms and go through a windshield. I hope, for the sake of the baby, that they are caught before the unthinkable happens :/



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Posted 03/12/2012

Ok I'm all for 'to each their own' and try not to judge about parenting decisions, buuuut, that's against the law and totally unsafe in the US! OP mentioned that they had their baby in Mexico. I have no idea what the laws are there or how people drive and how busy roadways are. I do know that I live in a relatively small town and people here can't drive worth a damn and there is no way in hell I would not have my baby in a safe, legal car seat!

Is driving that way legal in Mexico? I honestly have no idea. My point is, they are not in Mexico anymore! What is considered ok there, may not be here.

My April DD HATES her car seat, BTW. I would rather listen to her scream (although I hate that and will pull over often if we are driving very far to try and calm her down) then be in an accident and have her go flying out the windshield! She would be much happier if I held her during car rides but, moms arms do not equal a safe car seat!

Not to mention the fact that, at least with the laws in my town, you get in serious trouble for not having children in proper seats! They won't even let you leave the hospital with the newborn until they have checked the car seat!


Posted 04/18/2012
I have a question;
If the car is a two seater how can the parents use a car seat anyway? The only choice ahe had ia to hold the baby in her arms ?

,, am just asking
Posted 04/18/2012

This is crazy! It is illeagel to have more passengers than seatbelts! You are not allowed to shove 8 people into a 5 seater car and say that people aren't wearing seatbelts because you don't have enough. Thats just not exceptable! They obviously had 9 months to prepare for this baby (plus all the time that has past since he/she was born) and they knew their car was not big enough, they could easily buy a car off craigslist for literally a thousand dollars if not less, that would be much safer. There is absoutley NO excuse for this careless action! This is child endangerment and extremely illegal! They need to be turned into the police. They are taking this young baby on long road trips in a small low to the ground car that is less safe than regular size cars just because of it's mere size. The danger this baby is on a daily basis is just unbelievable wrong! Those people should obviously not have kids! I would turn them in the second they drove away! I agree with the PP that said its like letting a friend drive drunk knowing the danger they are putting themselves in. 


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Posted 04/18/2012
I was going to say what Telia just mentioned. About # of passengers= # of seatbelts. This is something I would report. I have seen people get pulled over where I live because they have more people in car than allowed and just the other day a car was next to me and in the back seat sat a lil girl ( at least 2 years old) she was sitting in someone's lap! A few mins later I saw them get pulled over, so in guessing someone reported them. Which im glad because I thought about doing it but couldn't see their license plate.

About a month ago my sis text me to say she just saw a car with the front seat passenger holding a small child!! I told her to call the cops. But she couldn't get the plate.

If these cars would get into an accident it would be these innocent little children getting injured it killed. I can't believe people would be so stupid to drive like that.

My niece sat in a booster (no back) until she was like 9 because she was soo tiny!! I will do the same with my kids for as long as they need.

These people traveling with an infant like this really need to be reported.


Posted 04/18/2012
If you only have a 2 seater car, then you can't drive with 3 people. The baby is not restrained even if mom is. That seems like so obvious. I'd report them.

Also, FWIW, my aunt's baby died by being held in the car in the 1960s. She was nursing her while my uncle drove and they got in an accident and the baby flew through the windshield. My aunt has never been the same.


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Posted 04/21/2012

That's crazy, my ex bought a 2 seater and has been putting our 2 year old in a front facing carseat it scares me so much but what can ya do when the law says its okay

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