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With students away at college, their cars are likely to gain more mileage than ever before.  Many students elect to head back home on the weekends and on longer breaks, and thus the vehicles that they used to keep pretty much close to home are going to be pushed further than they previously have.  With… read more

This week is National Child Passenger Safety Week, and numerous agencies throughout the country are doing what they can to spread awareness about the week’s importance.  One such entity is the Chicago branch of AAA, which has come out with a list of some important car seat mistakes that parents must strive to correct in… read more

Parents need to place their children into the proper car seat every single time they travel.  Doing so ensures that the impact of an accident will be lessened and that children will be properly protected.  Unfortunately, a new study from Safe Kids Worldwide has found that not all parents are stringent when it comes to… read more

In a bid to improve roofing safety in California, the Roofing Compliance Work Group has been launched by the state.  The group is intended to make sure that compliance with roof safety guidelines and regulations is being carried out throughout California and that complaints can be responded to in an adequate and expedient manner. The… read more

California citizens headed to Las Vegas this week should be aware of a safety campaign and enforcement operation being carried out by the Nevada Highway Patrol.  That initiative will place a particular focus on those actions that could contribute to a crash involving a large commercial vehicle.  In addition to keeping track of the normal… read more

The Secaucus, New Jersey-based The Children’s Place has announced the recall of one-piece cotton footed pajamas because of the products’ inability to subscribe to federal safety requirements.  The 38,000 or so affected pairs of pajamas, which were intended for kids between nine and 12 months, have bunnies on them.  A burn hazard is posed by… read more

Samaritan 300/300P PAD public access defibrillators are being recalled by HeartSine technologies due to a possible failure issue that could lead to a delay in a person getting needed therapy for cardiac arreast.  The issues associated with the devices are twofold:  first, the items can randomly turn on and off, a condition that may deplete… read more

Now that fall is just about here, many citizens of California will turn to conducting yard work around their homes.  This should be done in a way that limits exposure to injury, but there’s one type of home care that is potentially more dangerous than just about any other activity:  tree trimming. Many people enter… read more

Choosing the right vehicle for yourself and your family is an arduous task.  Many people will stick with a single automobile for upwards of a decade, and you thus have to be ready to pick the vehicle that can keep you as safe as possible during that entire time.  To that end, persons looking for… read more

Well, we just told you that this week is Watch Out For Wildlife Week in California, and that’s already in addition to National Child Passenger Safety Week being celebrated around the country.  But there’s another designation that has been given to this week, and that’s National Truck Driver Appreciation Week. To observe this week, the… read more

This week marks something called Watch Out For Wildlife Week, and because of the designation, numerous agencies from across California are attempting to get motorists to be cautious when driving along roads that are typically privy to attempts to cross by animals.  Caltrans, the University of California-Davis’s Road Ecology Center, and the California Department of… read more

Florida, whose recently passed ban on texting and driving was rather lax in the first place, will reportedly not have a campaign in place in order to raise awareness about the relatively lenient law.  On October 1, it becomes illegal to text within the state.  However, the law is a secondary offense, so a person… read more