The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a report today on booster seat safety, deeming a number of booster seats as unsafe. This is a good study that reinforces what we as Safe Kids Skagit County in general and our child passenger safety technicians have been saying in particular: any car seat must fit a [...]
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Booster Seats: Not All Sizes Fit All
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Baby injured when van is rear-ended
Thursday, December 17th, 2009This happened in Federal Way early this morning. Click here: A baby was injured after the vehicle he was in was rear-ended by a drunk driver. How many time does this have to happen? The law is simple: Kids are to be in car seats until they are 4’9″ Kids are not to be in [...]
Keep Christmas toys safe for kids
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Nothing could be worse than watching your children being hurt or killed while they are playing with their new Christmas toys. That’s why we need to make Christmas as safe as possible for our kids. Each year, more than 3 billion toys and games are sold in the United States, with 65 percent of [...]
Safe Kids Skagit County recycles car seats
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Fifty-six unsafe car seats are off the road today. Safe Kids Skagit County members took the seats last week to Skagit River Steel and Recycling, in Burlington, for disassembly and recycling. Among the 600 pounds of seats taken to recycling were 14 infant carriers, seven booster seats and 35 convertible and combination car seats. “We [...]
Children and cars are a deadly mix
Monday, November 9th, 2009By Jim Lippert President, Skagit County Safe Kids You’ve heard the statements: “It was an honest mistake.” “It was just for a few moments.” “I didn’t realize…” A few minutes might not seem like a long time, but there are circumstances when it can mean the difference between life and death. As temperatures heat up [...]
Kids Should Be Rear-Facing Until 2 Years Old
Monday, November 9th, 2009The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that children stay rear-facing until 2 years old, changing its previous recommendations. “AAP News,” the official newsmagazine of the academy, states that research shows that toddlers are five-times safer rear-facing than forward facing. Previously, the AAP recommended that children stay rear-facing until 1 year old and 20 [...]
Study shows rise in strangulation, suffocation deaths in infants
Monday, November 9th, 2009According to the results of a new study, published in February’s issue of Pediatrics, the rate of fatalities attributed to unintentional suffocation and strangulation in the first year of life quadrupled between 1984 and 2004. While such tragedies are still relatively rare, the increase in deaths coincided with an increase in parents choosing to bed-share [...]
Safe Kids Skagit County sells car seats and bike helmets!
Monday, November 9th, 2009We sell helmets at cost. Bike helmets sell for $7, and multi-sport helmets sell for $13. Our helmets are top-of-the-line and come in several cool colors. Make an appointment to have you and your child fitted with a helmet today.
Your emergency medical information available in a flash
Monday, November 9th, 2009In the event that you or your loved ones need to be transported to the hospital, personal medical information will need to be provided to emergency personnel. But what if that information is at home, locked away, lost or you or your loved one cannot remember important details? EMERGENTag has the answer. EMERGENTag is a [...]
Be Safe This Halloween
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips. Over a recent five-year period, on average, twice as many child pedestrians have been killed on Halloween as have been killed on average throughout the rest of the year. [...]
