In reply to WildScotsRacing:
Do you want to pay the $30 quadrillion in damages if a baby dies because a car seat failed and it was in a previous wreck? The car seat companies rightly will no longer accept liability in those scenarios, and neither will the insurance companies.
Seriously, all sorts of bizarre things happen in a crash. You should have seen the random stuff in the Mazda5 that broke when it was hit. Granted, it was hit a lot harder, but no jury is going to understand, a crash is a crash.
In reply to Javelin:
Ah, I've always been able to leave the scene under my own power
In reply to SnowMongoose:
The Saturn drives bit all the coolant leaked out. So tow truck it went.
Javelin wrote:
In reply to WildScotsRacing:
Do you want to pay the $30 quadrillion in damages if a baby dies because a car seat failed and it was in a previous wreck? The car seat companies rightly will no longer accept liability in those scenarios, and neither will the insurance companies.
Seriously, all sorts of bizarre things happen in a crash. You should have seen the random stuff in the Mazda5 that broke when it was hit. Granted, it was hit a *lot* harder, but no jury is going to understand, a crash is a crash.
I suppose so. Weird things do happen that shouldn't when the stars align just right, like soda straws being drive into a brick during a tornado.
Javelin wrote:
dean1484 wrote:
What is with the car seat replacement? Will insurance cover that?
Law states that a car seat has to be replaced if it's been in a crash no matter what. Too much liability otherwise.
insurance will cover, There is no reputatable car seat company that wants you to continue using the seats after even a minor crash.
SnowMongoose wrote:
Javelin wrote:
dean1484 wrote:
What is with the car seat replacement? Will insurance cover that?
Law states that a car seat has to be replaced if it's been in a crash no matter what. Too much liability otherwise.
Say what now?
I've never heard of this in WA.
WA does not have the law, but it is STRONGLY encouraged. USAA would pay, i believe, without even effecting the deductible.
All the literature from car seat manufacturers state replacing the seats in the event of a crash. When I had a wreck(thankfully low speed and not my fault) with my kids in the car.. I destroyed the seats before I set them out for the garbage man. I cut the harneses out and still had to chase people away from them on my trash pile. Too much liability to go aruond.
