How can my child be injured in an attached bicycle seat?

How can my child be injured in an attached bicycle seat?

Pat Hines (Traffic Safety Educator & Executive Director, SafeMoves) gives expert video advice on: What is an "attached bicycle seat"?; How can my child be injured in an attached bicycle seat?

The way children are hurt, and even killed riding on an attached bicycle seat, is when the parent loses control of the bicycle and the child hits the cement really hard. Now if a car's involved, the chance of a child in an attached bicycle seat child surviving a crash like that are zero. The child is open and vulnerable to any kind of car crash. There's the thin plastic of the attached bicycle seat that's protecting the side, but that's nothing when a car hits them. Also, if the parent simply runs over a stick and loses control, the child in the attached bicycle seat goes down. If the parent stops suddenly, the bicycle goes down. There's so many scenarios that can cause that adult to lose control of the bike and the child in the attached bicycle seat will be the one that suffers the injury, because they will hit the hardest. The adult may be able to put their feet down and protect themselves. The child has no way of protecting their self when they fall from an attached bicycle seat.