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Download these tips to keep your young pedestrian safe during the summer.
February 2011 Child Product Safety Recalls
Download these tips to keep your child safe during the summer.
This report ranks U.S. states for child safety during the summer. It includes findings and recommendations from five key areas: drowning, biking, falls, and car occupant safety, and pedestrian.
LAS VEGAS – With the start of summer quickly approaching, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today joined Safe Kids Worldwide and health professionals at Sunrise Children’s Hospital to discuss ways to prevent child deaths and injuries in hot cars. Earlier this month, four young children died of heatstroke in a seven-day stretch across the country, including two tragedies that occurred in school parking lots. NHTSA and other safety advocates urge parents and caregivers to think, “Where’s baby?
Every 10 days, across the United States, a child dies while unattended in a hot car. It only takes a few minutes for a car to heat up and become deadly to a child inside. As summer temperatures rise, more kids are at risk – the death toll this summer has already exceeded 20.
Fireworks always remind me of late summer nights at Zephyr Field, watching the minor league Zephyrs play baseball in the muggy New Orleans’ heat. Every summer from the time I was five, my family and I would sweat through nine innings for the promise of a fireworks show at the end and it was always worth the wait. But even at a young age, I knew that fireworks could be dangerous. It made sense that we let trained professionals shoot them off.
This blog was written by Joshua Ogboenyiya, SKW summer intern
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Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of the summer season, and many families will soon be heading to the beach. Sadly, it’s also the time when many children drown: An estimated 1,000 children fatally drowned in a single year in the U.S., most of them between May and August. In addition, more than 7,000 children are taken to the Emergency Room each year because of a drowning scare.