The Kyle David Miller Foundation was started after we lost our 3 year old son Kyle in a motor vehicle accident. Kyle was sitting in a booster seat but his seatbelt failed which caused him to be ejected from the vehicle and killed. At the time we did not know there were 5-point harness car seats available for older/larger children, we believed that a booster seat was our only choice. After his death we researched car seats extensively and found that rarely known about car seats existed that could hold a child in a 5-point harness up to 80 pounds. We now know that if Kyle had been in one of these seats, he would have survived our accident. In an effort to inform other parents about the importance of these larger 5-point harness car seats we created a public video and put it on youtube.com. The video received over 1 million views in the first month (over 2 million views to date) and we received many emails from concerned parents who wanted to purchase a 5-point harness car seat for their child but could not afford one. We began to see a real need for a charitable program that could provide these larger 5-point harness car seats to these families in need. After realizing that there were no programs in existence that provided help for these children and families, we decided to take it upon ourselves to start one. We started The Kyle David Miller Foundation to serve 2 primary purposes as follows:
1.To educate the public about motor vehicle and car seat safety –primarily the importance of the use of extended harnessing 5-point harness car seats for older toddlers and children.
2.To provide safe 5-point harness car seats to families who otherwise could not afford them.
