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Safe Kids Buckle Up Offers Families Hands-on Educational Activities to Increase Knowledge about Safety In and Around Vehicles
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Safe Kids USA’s local coalitions will conduct nearly 500 child passenger safety events in locations across the country during the month of May. Events will be held in nearly all 50 states, at locations including Chevrolet and other GM dealerships, fire stations, hospitals, retail stores, and insurance offices.
More than 300 of the events will be traditional car seat check-up events, where parents and caregivers learn how to properly secure children in car seats, booster seats and seat belts. Coalitions will also be holding the Automotive Safety Patch program for Cub Scouts, a new element of Safe Kids Buckle Up that teaches families how to keep children safer in and around vehicles.
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Accidental injury remains #1 killer of kids
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| (Washington, DC – April 28, 2008) – The accidental injury death rate of children 14 and under has declined by 45 percent in the United States since 1987, yet accidental injury remains the nation’s leading killer of kids.
“We’re losing too many children to an epidemic that can be prevented,” said Mitch Stoller, president and chief executive officer of Safe Kids Worldwide. “The 45 percent drop demonstrates tremendous progress, but we can’t lose sight that accidental injury remains the leading killer of our nation’s kids and that many of these injuries can be prevented.”
Academy Award©-winning actress, Marcia Gay Harden joined Safe Kids USA today to unveil a new report tracking the accidental childhood injury death rate in the United States since 1987. Some of the report’s startling statistics demonstrate that in 2005 accidental injury claimed the lives of 5,162 children ages 14 and under, and in 2006 there were more than 6.2 million children’s emergency room visits for accidental injuries in this age group.
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Safe Kids USA Applauds Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for Convening Childhood Injury Prevention Hearing
04/30/2008
In This Season of Recalls, Toy Shoppers Need to be Vigilant
11/21/2007
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