Car Seat Safety Check and Roundup of Unsafe Child Products -
Are Your Children Safe? 

OWEN SOUND - Find out if your children are buckled up safely.  Come to a free car seat safety check and bring your broken, recalled or unsafe car seats, baby walkers, exersaucers, cribs and baby gates too.  There is going to be a roundup of unsafe child products.   Both activities are FREE.  Make your child’s world a little safer.

Car Seat Safety Check and Roundup of Unsafe Child Products

Saturday, May 24th

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Canadian Tire, Owen Sound Store

This fun, family event includes:

• free draw for a high-back booster seat, donated by Canadian Tire, Owen Sound

• free tether bolt installation consultation, courtesy of Canadian Tire Service Centre. (Bring your tether bolt, straps and vehicle manual.)

• free gift certificates for the first 25 people to bring in their unsafe child and there will be draws for gift certificates of $25, $15 and $10 from local stores.

• police van on display for the kids

• safety games with prizes

• food booth for charity

In Canada, about 70 children under the age of 5 die in motor vehicle collisions each year and another 4, 000 are injured.  It isn't enough to have a car seat or booster; it must be used on every trip and it must be used correctly.   A correctly installed child restraint can reduce the likelihood of a child being injured or killed in a crash by 75%.  Over 90% of infant and child car seats are not installed or used properly.  Is yours?

Product safety is important too!  Almost 35% to 40% of all home injuries involve a product or the environment.  Each year in Canada, more than 5000 children under age 5 are injured because of nursery products.

Come and learn how to make your child’s world a little safer!  The Public Health Unit, Canadian Tire, and the Owen Sound Police Services sponsor this event.

For further information call Public Health at 376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456, or visit our web site at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca.       

For more information:
Sandy Rennick
Public Health Nurse
Injury Prevention Program
Grey Bruce Health Unit
376-9420 ext. 251