Drivers prefer not to have a rear-end collision because the driver in front has a "baby on board"sticker.

Krefeld (dpo) - That was close! Near Krefeld, a passenger car driver changed his mind at the last second and preferred to avoid a collision with the vehicle in front of him. The 44-year-old's sudden change of heart was caused by the "Baby on board"sticker on the car driving in front of him.
"I had already fully resigned myself to the idea that I would go into the back of the car with Karacho", Armin Peters remembers the moment when the car of his car in front of him suddenly braked at a yellow traffic light. "But then I saw the sticker just in time and got all worked up. I mean, that's not something you want to put a child through."
In cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport, experts have been promoting for years that parents should use the appropriate stickers. "Whether it's a classic baby-on-bord or a stylized child with a pretty name like Lennox-Julian or Senna-Maja, these little pictures can save lives,"explains transport expert Senna-Maja Brömmel. "The bigger and more conspicuous, the better."
Psychologists suspect that the images of babies or children's feet in motorists who are about to ram or drive off another vehicle, stimulate the brain empathy centre and involuntarily lead to a more responsible driving style. Accordingly, 9 out of 10 potential causes of accidents do without a crash with such a marked vehicle.
Armin Peters must now look for another vehicle in order to implement his rear-end collision plan. "No problem. There are a lot of trolleys driving around here that don't have such a sticker,"says the 44-year-old.