‘Please buckle up’ – Netcare 911 to motorists
Netcare 911 is pleading with motorists to buckle up this holiday season.
Netcare 911 is pleading with motorists to please take care and buckle those precious little ones up so that they too can enjoy the holidays.
According to Chris Botha, the Netcare 911 spokesperson, “More and more paramedics are responding to accidents across the country only to find that children are critically injured or killed because they are not restrained in a car seat, or if they are older, by a seatbelt.
“This is not just very taxing on the family but also on the emergency services that have to try to save the child’s life. Every day that we travel on the roads we observe little children standing between the front seats of the car, lying on the seats sleeping or sitting on mom’s or dad’s lap.
“This is a very bad and reckless practice. If for some reason the driver has to perform an emergency stop, the child will be flung forward at high speed and then crash into the windshield, or the back of the seats. Heaven forbid that the car overturns and the child is then ejected from the vehicle and lands on the road or under the vehicle.”
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