SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) — On Sunday evening, a rollover crash off Highway 101 in Los Alamos injured a woman and a 4-year-old child.
The child was restrained by a seat belt, but not an age-appropriate car seat or booster seat.
“Even though they were restrained by a lap belt and a shoulder belt when they were at that size. A four-year-old tiny bodies are not meant to be restrained by those. Restraint systems are meant for adults. So very lucky that that child was not thrown from the vehicle and in and did not slide out of the restraint system,” said Santa Barbara County Fire Spokesman Scott Safechuck…