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AAA AIMS TO GET UNSAFE CAR SEATS OFF THE ROAD AND
(posted by Public Affairs on September 3 @ 08:40 )
Round up your old car seats, and help keep children in Rhode Island and Massachusetts safer in the process! Through September 23, AAA Southern New England is offering a $5.00 rebate check for old, unsafe child passenger safety seats turned in to any of its 34 branches. The seats collected will be compacted and disposed of at news conferences on Thursday, September 18, in Rhode Island, and Friday, September 26, in Massachusetts. AAA¡¦s goal: to get unsafe child seats, which are often passed down or resold with an unknown history, out of circulation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in the last 30 years, more than 8 thousand lives have been saved through the proper use of child restraint seats.
At these car seat bounty events, AAA Southern New England will also announce the distribution of child passenger safety kits to 150 pediatrician offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. These educational kits feature everything from stickers for children, to an informational DVD, to physician prescription pads outlining child passenger safety recommendations. The kits will provide pediatricians and family practitioners with useful information and materials to share with young patients and their parents.
Both the car seat bounties and the kit distribution process help advance AAA¡¦s mission to keep child passengers ¡§seated, safe, and secure.¡¨ A child passenger safety seat is no longer safe if:

ƒÞ It has already protected a child in a car crash
ƒÞ It is more than six years old
ƒÞ It is missing critical parts, such as a buckle or harness that cannot be replaced by the manufacturer
ƒÞ It is listed on the recall list as needing to be destroyed

The news conferences underscore National Child Passenger Safety Week, September 21-27. Those who contribute unsafe seats have the option of donating their $5.00 reward to the SafeKids coalition for the purchase of new child safety seats that will be distributed at child passenger safety checkpoints.
The press events will take place at AAA Southern New England headquarters, 110 Royal Little Drive in Providence September 18 and at City Hall Plaza in Boston September 26. Both events are scheduled for 11am. Allied Waste Industries, Inc. is donating the trash compacting trucks.

AAA Southern New England is a not-for-profit auto club with 34 offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, providing more than 2 million local AAA members with insurance, finance, and auto-related services.

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