Don't be fooled by people looking to pull at your heartstrings.
I'm not going to lie and tell you that vehicle fatalities are a leading cause of death, despite what you see daily in big city traffic on the streets of Houston, New York City, Chicago, or Los Angeles.
In 2015, 35,092 are estimated to have died in motor vehicle accidents, according to the US Department of Transportation.
The CDC reports that about ten times that many people die every year of cancer.
So, the odds of your kid dying in a car may not be super high, unless they are one of the 35,000 fatalities that will happen this year, but looking in their eyes is enough to know that statistics don't matter to a parent.
What matters is protecting their child, regardless of the odds. Despite the stats, the most dangerous place for most of us in our daily lives is getting in a vehicle, and safety in the car should be a top priority.
I worked in the oilfield for 10 years, arguably one of the most dangerous industries in the world today, and do you know where most of our fatalities came from?
