Mother crushed her child with her body

05 October 2011

The accident occurred in the evening of October 4 in Tomsk on the Academic Avenue. «Mitsubishi Fuso» truck began making a left turn without letting the oncoming traffic to pass. As a result a passenger car «Toyota Carina» jammed into it. The truck toppled falling at the side. The bumper of the foreign car and the hood were heavily dented. The 21-year-old driver of the truck was hurt. The 34-year-old driver of the passenger car and his passenger were shaken but unhurt. As for the two children inside the Toyota, they were seriously injured.
Their parents ignored the safety rules and transported the children without car seats. A 6 year-old girl was sitting in a car seat but the belt length was not correctly adjusted. The 6-month baby was kept in mother arms. Carrying children in this way is highly risky. A head-on collision at speed 70 km / h results in increasing the body weight of a 75 kg passenger to 4 tons. Not only the child gets smashed against the front seat, a several ton mass is pressing the child from behind. As a result the child in this situation can be smashed to death by adults. Investigation showed that the 6-year-old girl also was not harnessed in the vehicle in the proper way. The regular belt is not designed to protect young passengers. Both children were seriously injured and were admitted to the hospital because of the adult’s fault. The adults were reckless on the issue of safety of their children.
According to Russian regulations and safety standards children under 12 years should must be transported using special restraining harness. The most reliable protection is provided by the child car seat. According to WHO the use of child car seats reduces the mortality among the young passengers by 54%, the risk of getting hurt reduces by 76% and the risk of sustaining serious injuries becomes 92% lower.

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