Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

This was my first thought when I loaded the thread

Nearly there! Nearly there!

2 more treatments left and then it's all over.

I've got tests next month to confirm that it's not coming back and then I can relax. Mrs Generali has a great job and I don't have cancer any more.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Is there an issue with baby seats in cars with air bags in the front or have I imagined this? Newer cars might be more of an issue?

Newer cars have a switch off button, so the air bag can be turned off when there is a baby in the front. Much older cars won't have an air bag on the passenger side. So it is the middle aged cars that might cause a problem.

mystic_trev

Doozergirl wrote: »

Mini Countryman .

I don't like big cars so have always wanted the smallest thing that holds everything. It's plenty adequate for two kids and you can get a large dog in the hatchback.

I've just picked up one of these from a BCA Ford direct Auction.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2279506/Ford-B-Max-reviewed-James-Martin-With-sliding-doors-cavernous-interior-hi-tech-gadgets-better-family-car-Ford-B-Max.html

No door pillars make life a breeze,especially if you've got small kids. Also easier for elderly to get in. The reason I bought it was for the higher driving position I wanted.It's basically a Fiesta with a different body. I bought a year old one,4,000 miles and cost me £9,500, which is considerably cheaper than the £25k I'd been looking at buying a new Qashqai :eek:

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes there is. In a crash, the air bag can kill a baby in a rear facing child seat - the baby gets its head crushed because it's much closer to the dashboard than it ought to be. Air bags also kill people who are sitting facing forwards if they're not tall enough. The air bag is designed to restrain the head and chest of an adult sitting in the front seat. A forward facing small child's head will be high enough to be restrained by the air bag but its chest will be below the level of the air bag. In an accident this snaps the head back relative to the chest and breaks the neck.

The back is much much safer than the front of a car. The front is simply where almost all the damage usually happens. The accident that devastated my family is typical - in the front, with air bag as well as seat belt and crumple zones, LNE was killed; in the back, with just booster seats and ordinary seat belts, no air bags, DS and DD only had bruises and a couple of minor broken bones.

NDG, I know you are a good and kind mother who wants your baby to be safe. Please put him in the back, especially on journeys out of town where you will be travelling faster than 30mph.

It's worth pointing out that there were four people in the car princess Diana died in. Only one survived, and he was the only one wearing a seat belt, and that was despite being in the front. The whole conspiracy theory of Al-Fayed fails simply because Dodi and Diana would probably have survived if they had simply buckled up.

I was horrified to discover that a friend in the back of my car had not put his belt on. In the event of an accident he could have killed one of the front seat passengers!

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I was horrified to discover that a friend in the back of my car had not put his belt on. In the event of an accident he could have killed one of the front seat passengers!

There used to be a "sinister" TV advert in the last 5 or so years which showed a woman driving a car with her teenagers .... and a "creepy" white van following her. The voice over was talking about "your killer" .... and she kept checking the mirror and seeing the van close. Then she braked and it was her unstrapped teenage son behind her that shot forward in the accident to kill her (from memory).

It's probably on YouTube.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's worth pointing out that there were four people in the car princess Diana died in. Only one survived, and he was the only one wearing a seat belt, and that was despite being in the front. The whole conspiracy theory of Al-Fayed fails simply because Dodi and Diana would probably have survived if they had simply buckled up.

I was horrified to discover that a friend in the back of my car had not put his belt on. In the event of an accident he could have killed one of the front seat passengers!

Thanks GDB. That's a good point.

The day after my family's accident, "my" police officer asked if I'd speak to another officer dealing with another aspect of what had happened. After this other officer had asked me the questions he wanted to ask, he thanked me, with tears in his eyes, for the fact that my kids were belted up. I thought it was a bit odd - I wondered why he would thank me, when I'm the one whose kids are OK because of their belts. Later I discovered that he had just come from the bedside of a child who was dying having been thrown from the car in which he was travelling. Traffic officers hate fatalities, but they get especially upset by child deaths. The officer was thinking about how it could so easily have been 3 child deaths instead of 1, and now I get why he was grateful to LNE and me that it wasn't.

My kids know they are only alive now because they were wearing their belts, and they always buckle up without having to be reminded. DS refuses to travel in vehicles that don't have seat belts and turned down a ride in a limo because of that.

Apologies if I've posted that before.

lostinrates

One of my nieces was really bad for slipping her belt off. When she was with me the only times she really got told off were for 1. Light fingered ness in shops and 2. Seatbelt infractions.

Her mother was not impressed I told her off so badly, but I doubt she'd been impressed with a dead kid either.the kids parents are both drivers with several accidents to their names too.

Masomnia

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's worth pointing out that there were four people in the car princess Diana died in. Only one survived, and he was the only one wearing a seat belt, and that was despite being in the front. The whole conspiracy theory of Al-Fayed fails simply because Dodi and Diana would probably have survived if they had simply buckled up.

I was horrified to discover that a friend in the back of my car had not put his belt on. In the event of an accident he could have killed one of the front seat passengers!

It's unbelievable that in this day and age someone wouldn't wear one. I remember when I was a kid one of my grandma's friends being in the car with us and saying 'I'll just hold it round me', referring to her seatbelt, which is completely nonsensical, but then older generations have funny ways like that. Dianna et al had no excuse.

There's no way I would drive with people in the car not wearing one; even if it was Princess Dianna.

lostinrates

Masomnia wrote: »

It's unbelievable that in this day and age someone wouldn't wear one. I remember when I was a kid one of my grandma's friends being in the car with us and saying 'I'll just hold it round me', referring to her seatbelt, which is completely nonsensical, but then older generations have funny ways like that. Dianna et al had no excuse.

There's no way I would drive with people in the car not wearing one; even if it was Princess Dianna.

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PasturesNew

When I passed my test seat belts weren't compulsory. When they became compulsory many were old/dirty/grubby and inflexible. I used to just slip it over my shoulder when in town (so a policeman outside would think I had it on). They used to be very uncomfortable.

My car now makes a noise if I don't have it on, so I do put it on .... but it does rub on my neck - and I know there are things for that, but I've never got to the stage where I've investigated/seen them.

January 1983 you had to wear them. 1991 it became compulsory to wear them in the back seats.