Ontario police say kids without seat belts are ‘a recipe for disaster’
Posted October 9, 2019 9:38 am.
Last Updated October 9, 2019 9:39 am.
TORONTO (680 NEWS) – Police in Ontario are calling it a recipe for disaster, after a seat belt enforcement blitz revealed parents aren’t buckling kids in.
Officers pulled over a car on a stretch of the 407, an Ontario highway, on Tuesday. Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Kerry Schmidt says an officer looked inside and saw that the 22-year-old driver was not wearing his seat belt – but that wasn’t all.
Recipie for disaster, 18 year old unbuckled passenger holding her 15 month old and 3 week old babies in her arms https://t.co/RtenROwJOL
— Sgt Kerry Schmidt (@OPP_HSD) October 9, 2019
“An 18-year-old, holding in her lap her 15-month-old, and when the officer explained how they needed to have that child in a car seat, she moved the child and behind, beside that 15-month-old baby was a three-week-old baby in mum’s arms.”
Schmidt says all the love in the world won’t protect children from being hurt or worse in a crash – they need to wear seat belts.
He says his force has seen a 25 per cent increase in seat belt-related deaths this year.