A mother’s personal experience: How important is a child safety seat?

In order to save trouble, many young parents usually hold their children in their arms when riding in a car. In fact, this is a very dangerous behavior. Once an accident occurs, it is easy to cause casualties and the baby's life is not guaranteed.

Child safety seats are important

Everyone knows that car safety seats are very important. In addition to protecting children's lives, if a child is not sitting in a safety seat, it will violate regulations!

A few days ago, a mother shared her experience of a car accident on INSTAGRAM. She hit the safety island on the Jianguo Overpass, causing the car to overturn several times. In the end, the whole car was overturned.

At that time, the netizen's mother and her friend struggled to climb out of the car, thinking about quickly carrying their son in the back seat out of the car. Although the child was hanging upside down due to the overturned car, he was still well fixed in the safety seat and was not hurt at all.

This incident once again reminds us of the importance of safety car seats. Even though the car overturned and was damaged like this, the child was still unharmed. This shows that car seats are really important. Parents should never take chances!

BMW personal experience

2017.8.17 22:27 On the Jianguo Viaduct

I had a serious car accident because the visibility was very dark when I was on the ramp, and I didn't notice the dividing island in front of me when I changed lanes (there was no yellow warning sign, and the police said it was knocked off in a car accident a few weeks ago)

After hitting the dividing island, the car flipped over several times. In the car at that time, there were only me, my best friend Xiaoguai, and my son Roubao. The first moment the car flipped over, I had only one thought in my mind: "Save my son quickly."

Xiaoguai kicked open the car door, and we desperately climbed out and quickly rescued Roubao from the back seat. At that time, although he was hanging upside down, he was still well fixed in the safety seat.

I unbuckled his seat belt and quickly escaped from the car to check if he was injured. Police cars, fire trucks and ambulances all arrived. I put my son on a stretcher and took him to the emergency room of Wan Fang Hospital. They immediately examined my son and found that he was unharmed.

Xiaoguai and I only had minor scratches and a sprained hand, but we were both very conscious. The paramedics who arrived at the scene were more worried about my son than I was when they saw the car flipped over. They kept checking again and again whether he had hit anything. He stopped crying the moment we carried him out of the car. I think he was fine, just scared.

Because the car seat was still intact, not twisted or cracked, the more I thought about it in the emergency room, the more frightened I felt.

Although the car was totally destroyed and almost scrapped, fortunately there was no car behind us, fortunately we were not thrown out of the car, and fortunately the car did not catch fire (the police said that there was a car fire caused by a self-collision at the same location a while ago, but fortunately the passengers were only slightly injured).

Fortunately, the car did not fly into the opposite lane, fortunately, it did not affect other cars and cause greater damage, and fortunately, we were still conscious and could climb out by ourselves (the windshield was shattered but did not pierce us).

Luckily, we only had minor injuries and my son is fine. I am really, really, really thankful.

I insisted on putting him in a safety seat. I couldn't imagine how terrible the consequences would be if he was in the front seat. How could such a small baby withstand such a violent impact? My hands are still shaking as I type this article. This car accident is a blessing in disguise.

The purpose of posting this is not to seek criticism. Through this accident, I want to emphasize to everyone how important safety seats are!

I have been driving for more than four years. Although my skills are not superb, they are still pretty good. I am not a road idiot. Of course, I never thought that this day would come.

Sometimes I would think that since the journey is so short, I can just hold him in the passenger seat, especially since most babies don’t like to sit in safety seats.

After the accident, I was really grateful that the car seat protected my son and made him unharmed. I implore all parents not to gamble with their children's lives by feeding, changing diapers, holding and taking selfies in the car, etc. If the child cries, let him cry. One day he will get used to it. Never ignore the safety of your child because of a momentary fluke!