Re: Seat-belt warning after baby on mother's lap is catapulted 150ft through car windscreen at 80mph.

Adrian wrote:
"Mortimer" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

Everything to do with shoddy basic maintenance (underinflated tyre)

I wonder how the crash investigators know that the tyre had been
underinflated just before it blew.

It'll be obvious.

But the significant thing in her case is that not ten minutes beforehand they'd stopped for fuel at a service station and her father had checked the tyre pressures.

With the tyres hot...?

Tyres don't just blow for no reason whatsoever. They're either damaged by suddenly hitting something (cut marks will be obvious on the carcass of the tyre, and the debris will be found up the road a bit, together with corresponding marks on the road) or through under-inflation (the carcass will be badly heat damaged, the marks on the road will show the cause, and the sidewalls will almost certainly be worn through long-term underinflation).

It would seem that the moral for feeding babies is to sit in the back with them and feed them without removing them from their child seat.

No, stop as soon as safely possible and do it there.

Particularly if you're breast feeding!

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