It appears the concern here was the toddler distracting the driver or hurting themselves by being loose to squirm around in the car. This isn’t about safety in a crash at all. Obviously an unfortunate and glaring oversight but I see what they were doing in a way. Not saying it was right, just saying if you aren’t thinking about collisions and just care about loose kids causing trouble in your car then it has a sort of logic to it.
