DOG IN CHILD SEAT
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by Gunther Doerfert, Auto Safety Columnist
DOG IN CHILD SEAT
TOWSON, MD.: Talk about being safety conscious! While driving north on I-83 Randy Z. says he saw a well groomed mid-size dog securely strapped into a child seat in a big Rolls-Royce. Animals roaming freely in a moving vehicle can be a real hazard. The smaller ones can and do get under the driver's legs and might interfere with the braking. Some excitable ones can create a stir at the least provocation and may distract the driver at a critical time.
How often do you see a driver with a dog in the lap with its feet on the steering wheel? Most of us understand that this is a no-no for children, both for our safety and the child's. A dog in the lap can interfere with safe driving the same as a child might and be just as seriously injured in a crash. Maybe the owner is not as concerned about the dog getting hurt. Perhaps someone reading this will invent a doggy car seat.
While on the subject of dogs and cars; have you ever been so distracted by a dog chasing and nipping at your car that you came close to having a crash? With many incorporated communities now having leash laws this is not a big problem in residential areas. But out in the "country" there are still car-chasing dogs. If you own one of these please restrain or retrain it. You owe that responsibility to the dog as well as to passing motorists.
While night driving on a snowy Iowa farm road a large dog jumped in front of my car. To avoid it I ended up in a ditch. Lucky for the dog! Safety experts are divided on whether it is a safer judgment for the humans to not take such extreme evasive action
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by Gunther Doerfert, Auto Safety Columnist
DOG IN CHILD SEAT
TOWSON, MD.: Talk about being safety conscious! While driving north on I-83 Randy Z. says he saw a well groomed mid-size dog securely strapped into a child seat in a big Rolls-Royce. Animals roaming freely in a moving vehicle can be a real hazard. The smaller ones can and do get under the driver's legs and might interfere with the braking. Some excitable ones can create a stir at the least provocation and may distract the driver at a critical time.
How often do you see a driver with a dog in the lap with its feet on the steering wheel? Most of us understand that this is a no-no for children, both for our safety and the child's. A dog in the lap can interfere with safe driving the same as a child might and be just as seriously injured in a crash. Maybe the owner is not as concerned about the dog getting hurt. Perhaps someone reading this will invent a doggy car seat.
While on the subject of dogs and cars; have you ever been so distracted by a dog chasing and nipping at your car that you came close to having a crash? With many incorporated communities now having leash laws this is not a big problem in residential areas. But out in the "country" there are still car-chasing dogs. If you own one of these please restrain or retrain it. You owe that responsibility to the dog as well as to passing motorists.
While night driving on a snowy Iowa farm road a large dog jumped in front of my car. To avoid it I ended up in a ditch. Lucky for the dog! Safety experts are divided on whether it is a safer judgment for the humans to not take such extreme evasive action
GHD91 all rights reserved. wellnessebooks.com/ebookstore.asp
posted by WRECK-LESS at Friday, November 04, 2005
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