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Show - I' ; f iii i ! I j I . " : 1 1 L. - , ! s .. , ' i ; I i : I 1 RYANCLEGG. all strapped into his new car seat, participates in the new Baby Buckle-up program launched by the Uintah 1 Easin Health Department March 1. The new program is intend-; intend-; ed to increase the number of children in child restraints devices wh.:e ndmg in a motor veh'de. Buclde-up baby to provecv in van is I ftel'in'.ah Basin Health Department jlsjched their new Baby Buckle-up pro-I pro-I pim March 1 to fight the leading cause j i accidental death of children ages 1 and Ira. According to Cricket Brown, health e&cator. the program is intended to infuse in-fuse the number of children in restraints car seats I w hile riding in Ector vehicles. Jfcey are trying to convince Kats of the need for the restraints and n helP them get good equipment. ' At the present time before the state lature there is a bill requiring child rstraints for children in motor vehicles. According to Representative Gayle rpachnie, the bill states children er me years of age who are under i Wwls will be required to be in a car Attaint device while riding in a motor r oicle. There is a dispute between the ' ttl!nd HoUSe of Representatives on it should be required of children am the front seat or of children ", ,u:e,re In 'he car. He said a decision 1 "WW be reached by Monday. BrS Program are Cricket I ubl 1, educator-andTonisPeed' I Hi(?alth nurse. at the Uintah Basin nith Department. (feL'l! 1)6 distributing materials 'S ComnT? by the utah Highway Safety ! CSy wi explain why it is of j 10 the child in some type 1. bestnT,"1' device and describe the , Wnf10" for children of all ages. I cten fl? Sive advice on how to get used to riding in a car seat. wllble t0 'he public will also be a nHteTie Which Iists a" of the safe' ' culdrPn ,, estraints for infants and ' Acco yearS 0ld- ' restr"8 l nationa' statistics on are the l3"!)5' molor venicle accidents drenb Cause of death for four 'ween the ages of one and inist!'0,1131 HiShway Traffic Safety iunia 1979 said-there is an tich exist r" r preventive medicine Dd for the epidemic of injury ttashes.L resu"ing from automobile i) iisej ini e" desi8ned and correctly correct-ly seat'. ar carriers and child i'devicM th ProPer use in a crash tylbZ ce tne risk of fata' ln" ttnl o' child PerCCnt- Less than 10 Per" Strained h Under 10 are properly ' Resear r'd'ng in cars' '5ryCeh'ndicates that a child under l-JoUge is 4Q tQ 5Q Um(.s I: more likely to die in motor vehicle crashes than from all of the common childhood diseases. Last May Mrs. Brown receive materials on this program. Apiwaring before the Board of Health in June, she asked them if they would fund the operation opera-tion if she could get the seats which they agreed to do. The Southwest Health District in the state already had a program of this nature in progress, and she was able to obtain information on how it worked and how to start a program locally. Mrs. Brown also cornered some highway safety money that was available. According to Mrs. Brown, three areas in the state could have between 30 and 50 seats. She wrote up a proposal and received word that this was one of the areas chosen to have the seats donated to them. They were sent 35 car seats. There are four in Manila, six in Duchesne, ten in Roosevelt, and fifteen in Vernal. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Speed spent last month setting up files and getting the program ready for their target date of March 1 . On March 1 six people from the area were given car seats and taught how to use them. " Names had been taken on a waiting list until the program got off the ground. Mrs. Brown said now they hope to expand ex-pand the program. They are presently contacting clubs in each area presenting their program to them hoping they will want to use them as their fund raising project for the year. "We need more car seats," said Mrs. Brown. "Any (money for) seats raised in Vernal will' stay in Vernal. We need local funds to proceed with the program." Residents may contract to use the seats up to 12 months. There is a $5 deposit which will be returned to the borrower bor-rower if it comes back clean and in good condition. There is also a charge of $1 per month contracted for which is also paid in advance. If the child should outgrow the seat, their money will be refunded. When the contract due date comes, the car seat must be returned or recon-tracted recon-tracted for another length of time. At this time Mrs. Brown said they only on-ly have car seats for infants up to 20 pounds. In the future they hope to be able to serve children over 20 pounds. Conlinundjjn pan 2 1 Babies . Continued from page 1 When all of the "bugs" are worked out, Mrs. Brown said they would like to turn it over to the hospital so "mothers can take their child home from day one in a car restraint device." The Health Department teaches the people how to use the car seats and shows them the seats are easy to use. Then they make sure they know how by having them put the child in the car seat and also put the seat into the car and attach at-tach it properly. For more information or an oppoint-ment, oppoint-ment, contact the Health Department at 789-1264. |
