Child safety seats are a precaution that can save a young person’s life in a car crash. Installing the correct child safety seat for your child and in the proper manner is vitally important to insure your child’s safety while traveling in your vehicle.
Jordan Bennett with the Orange Fire Department said almost three out of four car seats are not installed correctly or are the wrong size for the child in them. In fact in Texas according to Bennett 73 percent of protective child car seats are not safe for the child in them. Local communities provide car seat checkup events for the instruction of parents to make sure their kids are safe.
Bennett has served three years with the fire department. He recently took a four day class of 32 hours in Beaumont to become certified in checking children’s car safety seats. There were three days of classroom, book learning, and practice of installing car seats of all kinds. On the fourth day a checkup event was held for the students with an instructor observing to inspect the car seats for residents in Beaumont that they had the right ones installed properly. Bennett stated, “The motto was to make sure they leave safer than they showed up.”
Previously, there were no certified inspectors of children’s safety seats in Orange County. Following the training attended by Bennett, there are now six certified inspectors and five of them are with the Orange Fire Department. Bennett added they plan to hold a child safety seat checkup in Orange this summer hopefully before school starts up at the beginning of August.
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