Electric window WARNING

 This is a great awareness article  of the dangers of modern  gizmo's...especically in cars and where there are young children.....so glad that i don't have electric windows, mine are still the old fashion ones....wind down by hand.

Thanks for the warning, I had a friend in St Johns Ambulance and she told me that electric windows are awful for other reasons too....

In an accident and you are trapped in a car you cannot get the windows down if the engine has stopped (I know my windows don't work unless the engine is running).  Makes me wonder why they have them at all!!!

I am so glad you little one is ok.  I can only imagine what you must have felt.

Jo

I've always followed a few simple rules with regards to cars, kids, ciggies, and rest breaks, electronic controls or not...

1. I take regular breaks when driving long distances. "Stop, Revive, Survive" This avoids fatigue, cramps, and bad moods from all. Also gives you a chance to have those ciggie breaks outside of the car where your kids are choking on the smoking and you're not stinking your car out. A 5 to 10 minute leg stretch every two hours is the general recommendation.

2. It's now illegal to smoke in a car while children are in the car anyway, and I personally find that smoking a ciggie can in fact be a distraction whilst driving. So, I don't do it. I've witnessed three car accidents and one motorcycle accident caused by cigarettes, and I don't want one to happen to me.

3. When I'm not in the car, neither are the kids... or the keys! Radio, lights, airconditioner be damned. It only takes but seconds for kids to lock themselves in a car, or for someone to push you out the way and jump in your car and drive away, with or without your kids. I've seen a car-jacking happen and they happen so fast it's astounding.

It just goes to show...however vigilant you think you are..........something always unexpected occurs.

I'm just so glad your experience turned out for the good.

Thanks for your article. :)

I had just been to the shop and I knew we were going out very soon after I got home ,so I left the car unlocked and keys in ignition and hand brake off .I asked my older children to go and put my 2 year old in his car seat and told them to get in car as we were ready to go.My 4 year old son got in the car and knocked it out of park and the car started rolling back ,my 2 year old was standing near the open back door so when the car started rolling back it knocked him over my husband and I both ran after the car and somehow i mangaged to climb in the back seat to pull the hand brake on just as the front wheel was about to run right over his hips luckily he was fine but we called an ambulance and had him checked out just to be sure but because it was an incident involving a car the police were notified and when they arrived at the hospital to speak with us my four year old son said "Mummy I dont want to go to jail"  poor little bugger was horrified.

So from that day I make sure I pull the  handbrake on and lock the car.

That would have scared the c*** out of me, especially if she wasn't making a sound.  Thank goodness it all turned out for the best.  

Just goes to prove that even when we are with them cars and kids just don't mix.  I'm so glad that little Jj is ok.

xxxxxxx