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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Car seats and sleeping children
Message-ID: <217@desint.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 03:45:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 03:45:24 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Nov-84 03:54:39 EST
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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I am something of a safety nut.  You will not catch me in my car without my
seat belt on, and I apply the same rule to my occasional underage
passengers.  But I have encountered a problem with returning late at night:
no matter what you do to try to prevent it (not that I would), the kid is
going to fall asleep.  The one I usually transport, Alyssa, then falls
sideways in the carseat so that either her neck or her abdomen (depending
on which side she falls to) is going to bear the brunt of stopping her body
with the shoulder strap in an accident.  Either would kill her.  But if I
recline the seat enough to prevent this, she will slide right under both
the lap and shoulder straps in an accident, and the belt will decapitate
her in a most gruesome fashion.  I can lay her down in the back seat, but
then it is almost impossible to find a reasonable way to strap her in (I
have "choker" seat belts in the back).

Does anybody have a solution to this problem?  Is there a car sleeper
available for larger kids? (Alyssa is now 5).
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	First Systems Corporation
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