Kids at risk: No seatbelts, asleep on a mattress in the back of a vehicle

This is safe Kids Week in Canada, and Grenville OPP have opened it by sharing a picture of a situation that is anything but safe.

Officers stopped an SUV over the weekend after a concerned driver gave them a call.

They found two kids asleep in the back of the vehicle, unsecured, on a mattress. Another child in the car wasn’t buckled in.

The driver was charged under the Highway Traffic Act and police remind us all make sure our kids are safely in car or booster seats, or if they’re big enough, wearing seatbelts.