Alicat, I couldn't agree more. The other day I saw something on Discovery called accident investigators. Case was two adults and a child, all not latched by seatbelts. Baby was two months old, he was thrown several feet from the car when it was hit on the side by an SUV. They all died.

Then the program when on to show that an accident, even at 'parking lot' speed level is akin to your child falling from the 2 floor of the building. It's not the speed at which kills the child, it's the sudden stop that does. Massive internal bleeding, broken bones are just to name a few causes of death.

Children are particularly susceptible as there brains slam onto the wall of their cranium when a crash occurs.

Ok now I do realise that all of this is quite graphic. But maybe then, all those people out there that don't think it's important to strap their child in; will finally realise how critical it really is!

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage." ~Sri Aurobindo