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Show HILL TOP TIMES OC OD Friday, July 27, 1984 Utah 'leaw of Lovef meeams child acquiring a car safety seat or safety belt during or before any court By Ron Baersch Safety Office The Utah child restraint "Law of Love" became effective July 1 with the following provisions: All children less than five years of age must be properly restrained in a motor vehicle driven by their parent or legal guardian unless all seating positions are occupied by other passengers. Children less than two years of age must ride in an approved car safe, ty seat. Children two years old, but under age five may either ride in an approved car safety seat or use a safety belt. Car seats must meet the U.S. Department of Transportation safety standards and must be used according to the manufacturers' instructions. The law exempts authorized emergency vehicles, mopeds, campers, sleepers, motorcycles, motor homes, school busses, and such vehicles that offer transportation for hire. Violators are subject to a fine of not more than $20 which shall be dismissed if the driver shows proof of appearance. To expand further on the need for this law, the following is quoted from the U.S. Air Force Safety Journal: "After the critical early weeks of life for the newborn baby, automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for American children. Each year approximately 700 children under the age of five are killed while riding in passenger vehicles. Forty thousand more are seriously injured. "The tragedy is that most of those deaths and injuries could be prevented if parents would take the time to buckle their children into proper child safety seats. "To understand why safety seats are so important, one must first understand what happens in a crash, or in a sudden panic stop. When a car hits another object and stops suddenly, or when a sudden hard braking action brings it to a fast stop, all occupants in the car continue to move forward at the same speed the car was traveling, until something stops them. "Too frequently, that "something" is the steering column, the dashboard, Hot dogs are the food most often responsible for childhood choking deaths, according to a new study by Carole Stallings Harris and colleagues of Johns Hopkins University, Balti Some foods cam be f cattail for children more. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that round, pliable food products are most often involved in fatal choking accidents among youngsters. ams? 930XB ecoaMie 4000" CFM Cools up to 1 1 50 sq. 1 year Parts & Labor 5 year Rust Out ft. Financing on Approved Credit Universal the windshield, or some other part of children into regular safety belts than the interior of the car. It is this second to let them ride free, loose and uncollision that causes injuries and protected. death. "Some parents think they can pro"In the case of small children, if tect infants and young children from not are restrained, they they literally being injured by holding them in their become flying missiles. It happens so laps. They cannot! In a 30 mph crash, fast, and with such force even in low for example, a child may be thrown speed crashes that neither the forward with a force equal to 30 times parent nor the child can prevent the its own weight. If you are wearing a child from a violent impact with other safety belt, the child can be torn from passengers or with some hard surface your arms and hurled into the dash or within the car. the windshield. If not wearing "The solution to the problem of the a safety belt, both you're and you your child second collision is a restraint system. will fly forward, with the probability For adults, that means a safety belt, that your child be crushed bewhich holds you safely in your seat, tween you and themay dash. Holding your away from the car interior. The belt's child in your lap is not safe. webbing and the sturdy adult pelvis "Unfortunately, studies show that and rib cage absorb the forces of the most parents do not provide their collision. But for young children under children with the protection child five, child seats are the best solution. seats can offer. A recent survey found "Children need to have the crash that only seven percent of young chile forces spread more evenly over dren were using child seats correctly. "Whether adults do or do not use bodies, and that's what child seats do. They are fastened to the car safety belts available in cars is a conscious choice. Small children cannot by the safety belt already in your car, and in a crash they protect children decide for themselves to buckle up. from colliding with the car's interior. They depend on their parents to pro"Of course, if no child seat is availtect them from harm and make that decision for them." able, it is much better to buckle then-fragil- The researchers studied records of 103 infants and children whose deaths were attributed to specific foods. Hot dogs, candy, nuts or grapes accounted for more than 40 percent of the deaths. Hot dogs alone accounted for percent of the deaths. The researchers also found that most childhood choking accidents 17 were among one-year-old- and s, EXPERT INSTALLATION Since t Hr. JUR COXDmOXIXS 193924 cookies or biscuits caused half the deaths in infants younger than 12 months. 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