University Heights Police Officer Buys Car Seat for Motorist

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By Aaron Hepker

Story Created: Mar 20, 2010 at 3:27 PM CST

Story Updated: Mar 20, 2010 at 3:27 PM CST

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS (AP) — A University Heights police officer worried about an unrestrained child in a vehicle he pulled over purchased the boy's mother a car seat.

Officer Don Strong said he spotted the boy bouncing in the back of the vehicle while on traffic enforcement duty on Thursday. Strong says the boy's mother told him they had an 80-mile drive to Knoxville and no way to secure the child.

After trying to locate a car seat elsewhere, Strong and the family went to the Walmart in Iowa City and the officer bought a car seat for the boy.

Strong says the $60 cost was "a small price to pay for the child's safety."

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