# Mum Warns of Forward-Facing Carseats After Her Daughter Was Left With Life-Threatening Injuries in Car Crash

- Link: https://stayathomemum.com.au/family/parenting/mum-warns-of-forward-facing-carseats-after-her-daughter-was-left-with-life-threatening-injuries-in-car-crash/
- Published: 2016-05-26T13:00:54+10:00
- Author: Clare Whitfield

## _A mother has shared her heartbreak after her daughter in a forward-facing car seat was left with life-threatening injuries in car crash while�her other daughter in a rearward-facing carseat was left unscathed._

Mum�Angela Brown, from rural New South Wales, has now made�a heartbreaking�[Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/angela.brown.940641/posts/1007159746028636)
to urge other parents to use rearward-facing seats, three months after the crash.

Mrs Brown and her husband were travelling home from the dentist along with their
two young daughters, a two-year-old and a one-year-old, when the car they are�in
slammed in to a tree at 100km/h on February 26.�The impact caused the car to flip
and the tree they crashed into, snapped in two and landed on the roof of the car,
trapping the family inside.

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Mrs Brown�said that she then heard her two daughters screaming and they were upside
down in the car. To her horror, she saw her two-year-old daughter, who was seated
in a forward-facing carseat, had a�large laceration on her forehead after the�aircon
control vent had flown off and hit the girl’s�head, while her one-year-old daughter,
who was facing rearward, had only a small bruise on her shoulder.

The two girls were then taken to Westmead Hospital.

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Mrs Brown said that her toddler was one of the youngest to be fitted with a Halo
Brace and that the doctor told her�that most children with the same kind of�injury
don’t normally make it.

After the accident, Mrs Brown said she�said she would use rearward facing seats 
for her babies from then on as long as she possibly could. She wrote:

> “I was always unsure about when turning my babies around but after our crash and
> the hard evidence we are presented with I will forever rearward face my babies
> as long as I possibly can. Don’t make the same mistake as I did. It could cost
> you your babies life.”

[Kid Safe](http://www.kidsafe.com.au/crguidelines)**�**recommended that�children
are restrained in rearward facing seats until they are about six to nine months 
old, are 70cm tall or outgrow the seat, while children aged between six months and
four years old can be secured in either a rear or forward facing child restraint
with a built in five or six point harness.

Source:�[Dailymail.co.uk](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3608143/Mother-Angela-Brown-urges-parents-use-rearward-facing-child-restraints-crash-left-daughter-horrific-injuries.html)

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