There will be a car seat inspection day on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at the Belmont Fire Department run by Fox Carolina, Safe Kids Upstate and Belmont Fire Department to help keep children safe while traveling in cars.
The idea is the ensure that parents are aware of the type of car seat their children should be using and also to check that they are installed properly and free checks will be offered.
Those children who are either unrestrained or not in the right type of car seat, or in one which has not been fitted properly have a much greater risk of being killed or seriously injured in an accident. In fact, according to Safe Kids Worldwide, of those children who died in car accidents in the U.S. in 2011, around a third were unrestrained.
When the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Division of Injury and Violence Prevention carried out an audit at some elementary schools in South Caroline they found a third of children were not restrained at all and just under half of the children were not properly restrained.
If you, or someone you know, have been injured in a serious car accident in South Carolina, you may be entitled to monetary compensation. Please contact us today at (864) 280-7660 or contact us online, so we can schedule your free initial consultation and get you the financial compensation you deserve.
