Safety seat clinic in Coos Bay
By Brie Thiele, KCBY NewsIn Oregon, 87% of all child safety seats are improperly used, and that could be the difference between life and death in a car accident. MultimediaRepresentatives from ODOT, Bay Area Hospital, Coos Bay Police Department and South Coast Head Start helped out the community by inspecting car seats, installing them correctly, and even giving car seats to low income families. Rosalee Singer with the Oregon Department of Transportation says it's easy to install car seats improperly because not all car seats fit in every car. She says, "they'll get a car seat because it's beautiful, it's the color that they want for their child, or the pattern and then they get it to their vehicle and it wobbles from side to side or it hangs over the seat and they can't get it in tight enough and so they have all these issues but they don't know why." Singer says the purpose of the free clinics is to help driver's leave safer than when they arrived. "Even though law enforcement agencies and the department of human services are involved, nobody's going to be cited," says Singer. "We really are just an education service and we want people to feel like they can trust us and feel confident and secure to come down and make sure that they're doing the right thing with their kids." September 25th is National Seat Check Saturday so another clinic will be held on that day at the Coos Bay Fire Department from 10AM to 2 PM. |
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February 9, 2012
- Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon
