Mum angry over loose child seat

A ONE-YEAR-OLD baby could have been seriously injured when a child car seat was not secured after being cleaned.

Pebsham mother Jenny Shaw had been out shopping in Hastings town centre on Monday afternoon and left her car in Priory Meadow to be valeted.

When she came back, she strapped her daughter, Elle-May, in her seat in the back of the Renault Megane and drove towards home.

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She was passing Warrior Square at St Leonards when a car pulled out in front of her, forcing Mrs Shaw, 23, to swerve and make an emergency stop.

She turned around to check her daughter was all right, only to see that little Elle-May's child seat had slid forward and was tilting perilously over the edge of the back seat.

Mrs Shaw said: "I am extremely annoyed that they let me go and put my daughter in that kind of situation.

"I wouldn't have minded if they had told me it wasn't locked in and I could have done it myself.

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"I have been there a couple of times before and they just hoovered around the seat and not taken it out. They should warn parents to check their child seat and so I could make sure it was safe. It upsets me because she is so precious to me and something worse could easily have happened."

Car Park Valeting Ltd is the company that runs valeting at Priory Meadow.

It has apologised for the incident and promptly ordered an investigation.

They said that in seven years of being in business they had never had a similar problem.

John Hough, manager at Priory Meadow, said: "The company has urgently reviewed its procedures with a view to developing a policy whereby this can't happen again."

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