Nothing quite like working for a company where H+S is paramount to make you see danger in every corner.
Back in the day if there weren't seatbelts in the back of the car then no one worried, they just crammed three kids sitting on the laps of three other kids in the back. Now, this already sounds like a recipe for disaster but then again in the back of a 1.0 fiesta it's not like speed is going to be the major factor in the inevitable crash.

But what I saw which was worse than that was the woman who had 4 kids in the car, so three in the back and one sat on the lap of the passenger in the front, a 20-stone woman with a 4 year old on her lap. So JUST TO BE SAFE she put her seat belt around them both.

So if that car happened to have a front-end collision, or even just a heavy case of slamming the anchors on to avoid a cat/tramp/OAP on a scooter, that will result in the decellerating mass of the 20 stone passenger violently piling the kid against the static seat belt - probably more instantly deadly than flying through the windscreen and on to the road.

Safety first, safety second kids.
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