OPP Charge Driver Over Beer Booster Seat

By Chris Chase

Jul 16, 2019

Car News

Summary

Poor life choices

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged a Southern Ontario driver for using a case of beer as a booster seat for his two-year-old passenger.

CTV News says the OPP West Region detachment didn't identify the 22-year-old man nor specify his relationship to the child in the interest of protecting the toddler's identity; police also didn't say why they pulled the man over in the first place. The traffic stop happened in the Township of North Perth, a rural municipality northwest of Kitchener, Ontario. The toddler was not injured.

Needless to say, a case of beer is not a suitable substitute for a booster seat. Ontario law dictates that children weighing 18 kg or less must ride in a properly secured car seat, while kids between 18 and 36 kg should sit on a booster in order to be properly restrained by the car's seatbelts.

Following the traffic stop, police brought a proper child car seat to the scene and contacted Ontario's Ministry of Child and Family Services.

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As a child, Chris spent most of his time playing with toy cars in his parents’ basement or making car sounds while riding his bicycle. Now he's an award-winning Algonquin College Journalism grad who has been playing with real cars that make their own noises since the early 2000s.