5 point harness seat belts help to reduce your chance of dying in a car crash. Yet we only put them on little people. Why not wear them, always?
Inconvenient? Embarrassing? It's pretty inconvenient to die as well.
Here is a very sad film about a little girl who died whose parents have since then become advocates for keeping your kids in 5 point harness for longer amounts of time.
Just today I thought, does my lanky, 7 year-old look ridiculous in his, but I don't care. I would wear one if it were an option.
Says the mother of the little girl who died:
After hitting a tree at just 40km/h, Mrs Broadhead turned immediately to check on her children.
They appeared to be fine. The car itself only had a broken headlight and some minor crumpling of the bonnet.
"She got Madeleine out of the car and when she released Isabelle's seatbelt, Isabelle slumped forward," Mr Broadhead said.
"Until that point she didn't realise there was anything wrong. Obviously the blood had already stopped going to her brain and she blacked out."
Despite support for the campaign, Mr Broadhead has a message for the few parents who complained of the cost of keeping kids in restraints and booster seats for longer.
"Isabelle had three older sisters," he said. "One of the hardest things I have ever done was to tell the girls their sister died.
http://youtu.be/KqcTbIi1-y4