Madonna was seen riding in the backseat of her own gas-guzzling SUV with her little adopted infant Davie Banda in her lap – and not in a carseat, not once but on two separate occasions. She didn’t really pull a Britney in that she wasn’t actually driving the car, but this is spiltting hairs since it’s still very illegal and very dangerous:

The 48-year-old and husband GUY RITCHIE loaded their three children into their Escalade after 2 March (07) services at the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, but baby David was not properly restrained. A witness tells American publication Us Weekly, “There was no car seat. (Madonna) sat in the middle row, and they left with David on her lap.” The following day (03MAR07), Madonna allegedly defied the law by once again by sitting in the middle of the vehicle with six-year-old son ROCCO not properly secured. A representative for the singer slams the claims, saying, “Proper security measures are always taken for Madonna’s children.”

Despite Madonna’s PR flack’s claims, there are pictures of her riding with Davie on her lap. As the mother of a toddler, I have to say that’s f’ing ridiculous that she would do that. My son has ridden in childless aunts and uncle’s cars when we’re visiting and they always manage to find carseats to borrow from friends or neighbors – and we’re not rich, and we don’t have people at our beck and call who can go fetch carseats for us while we’re practicing cult worship for hours.

Madonna apparently thinks the child she snatched from its destitute family is not precious enough to protect, or maybe she’s just so full of herself and out of touch with reality that she believes Davie is safe in her skinny lap in that giant SUV she’s riding in.

I checked British carseat rules and it looks like they changed the law in September 2006 to make booster seats compulsory for all children from 3 to 12 or up to a certain height. I would suspect that car seats for infants up to three were mandated by law before that, but I couldn’t find out much about it.

Regardless it’s the law in England and in the states where Madonna so happily set her baby down on her lap two times. She’s probably been doing it since she adopted him and just hasn’t been caught yet.

A former nanny of Madonnas is shopping a tell-all book about the Pilates-loving control freak’s household. There’s no word what it contains, but the 80 page proposal sounds juicy and it looks like the nanny already has a literary agent. Can’t wait for that.