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The national average for seat belt usage is at an all time high-82 percent. In the Western states it is even better at 93%, but even as the fatality rate decreases as seat belt use increases, there are still too many avoidable fatalities due to restraint use in America. Even though all 50 states have some sort of restraint law for children, it is still the number one killer of children under 14.

Click it or Ticket (CIOT) is the most successful seat belt enforcement campaign to date. It is the major factor in the decrease of both accidents and fatalities in children and adults. However, while 96% of parents and caregivers believe that their child’s safety seat is installed correctly, in realty research shows that seven out of 10 children are not buckled up right.

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With the start of the holiday shopping season next week and with over 80% of the toys made in China, what is a parent to do? There has been 60 individual toy recalls this year—that is double the amount of recall alerts the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued in 2006. The recalls all fall into three categories: lead content, hazardous chemicals and detachable magnets.

The latest recall came just last week; children from several states were sickened by the Chinese-made toy “Spin Master Aqua Dots”. There is now a massive recall of over 4.2 million of these items in this country alone, but it is distributed in 40 countries worldwide.

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Lori Coble was taking her son, Kyle to the Irvine Spectrum for his birthday wish, his first ride on the Ferris wheel for his 5th birthday. On the drive home, His sister Emma, 4, and Katie, 2, his mom and grandmother were struck from the rear by a big-rig carrying 40,000 pounds of electronics. Within hours, the Coble family tragically lost all three children. Unfortunately, this is not a rare occurrence.

According to the Truck Safety Coalition, www.trucksafety.org, more than 5,300 people are killed each year and over 10,000 are injured in truck-related crashes. The statistics are incredible. The number of deaths is equivalent to 26 fully- loaded airplanes falling from the sky each year.

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November is usually the month famous for Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving, but here in California, something else is always a constant—fog causing accidents! It seems the weather patterns always bring early morning dense fog along the coastline and in the inland valleys, tule fog. Tule fog is technically radiation fog, but whatever you want to call it, various types of fogs are responsible for motor vehicle accidents at this time of the year.

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Well, it’s that time of the year again to “fall back” to standard time. This Sunday, most residents of the US will be turning their clocks back one hour, and going back to Daylight Standard Time. Even though the time change is meant to produce energy savings for the country, it usually leaves everyone feeling fatigued, at least for the first week or so, and that leads to safety risk at home and on the road.

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According to data released today by Safe Kids Worldwide, kids’ pedestrian deaths dramatically dropped in the last decade. Safe Kids Worldwide is a children’s safety group that promotes changes in laws and attitudes to prevent accidental injury to children. Prevention of personal injury is always more effective than hiring an attorney later. In fact, pedestrian death rates among children are down 40% since 1995. That is great news, so why the drop?

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