"Mom Dedicates Her Life To Safety
Awareness After Fatal Car Seat Error"
By: Caroline Bologna
Source: The
Huffington Post
Holly Wagner's world was turned
upside down when she lost her eleven-month-old son, Cameron in a car accident.
Her baby boy had been improperly fastened in his car seat. If that mistake were
to have been corrected, Cameron would have
been alive today. Holly does not want other parents to experience what she did,
therefore now has dedicated her life to sharing her story and educating people
about car seat safety. The twenty-seventh of April 2013, Holly Wagner was at
work, whilst her boyfriend Rhett was watching her three-year-old son Connor and
Cameron. After spending a day with the kids outside, Rhett ran a stop sign and
collided with another car on the way back home. Rhett survived with a brain and
leg injury, Connor survived with a broken arm, but Cameron was a whole other
story. Cameron's injuries were far more severe since he was not buckled
properly. Only the chest clip was fastened, which caused it to break upon
impact, causing Cameron to come off his seat and be ejected from the car.
Cameron was suffering from a severe head injury, broken ribs, and a punctured
lung and spleen, causing him to have several back-to-back surgeries. Due to the
severity of Cameron's brain injury, his body was not absorbing any nutrient,
therefore Holly had two choices: let her son starve to death or take him off
life support and have him avoid that pain and misery. After holding her son in
her hands, and feeling and observing his injuries, she chose to let him go.
According to Buckle Up For Life, a
child passenger safety program, seventy-five percent of car seats in this
country are not installed correctly. This article is important as it urges
others not to pass up the opportunity to try to help people. It is meant to
inspire parents to get a car seat check and also to encourage parents to raise
awareness of the issue of child passenger safety with the people closest to
them.
