Child Passenger Car Seat Safety Initiative Scheduled In East Windsor

EAST WINDSOR, NJ – East Windsor Township is launching a Child Passenger Car Seat Safety initiative from June through September, Mayor Janice Mironov said.

The initiative was made possible through a $7,500 grant from the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety.

This initiative, offered for Township residents will be held at the East Windsor Police/Court building located at 80 One Mile Road on Friday, May 10, Thursday, June 6, Wednesday, July 10 and Monday, Sept. 16 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and at the Township National Night Out event at the East Windsor PAL Complex (30 Airport Road) on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

The Township program is designed to outreach and educate motorists about securing children passengers in child seats as required by State law. Residents can have their child car seats inspected for proper fit and installation in their vehicles at no cost and receive educational materials regarding the use of child car seats and current child restraint laws.

A complete inspection of a child passenger car seat takes less than 10 minutes and is conducted by nationally certified child passenger safety seat technicians. No appointment is required.

“Statistics assembled from several organizations including the American Automobile Association and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety

underscore that having a properly installed child passenger car seat is extremely important to ensure the safety of our young children in motor vehicles,” Mironov said.

“It is noteworthy that motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death for young children and that four out of five child car seats are incorrectly installed. The proper use of child car seats is one of the simplest and most effective means to protect young children passengers.” Child safety seats have been shown to reduce fatal injury by 71 percent for infants less than one-year-old and by 45 percent in toddlers ages one through four years, according to studies. National studies have determined that most child safety seats are improperly installed or misused, thus negatively impacting the safety value of these devices.