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Article: Child Safety Seats Get a Checkup; Numerous Violations Found During Mobile Inspection Trailer's Inaugural Visit
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 12, 1999
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A day-care provider had six children in her van strapped into
child safety seats that were either improperly attached or in such
disrepair that the seats were unusable. One pair of nervous new
parents stopped in on their way home from the hospital and found they
hadn't locked into place the child safety seat carrying their 2-day-
old baby.
So it went Thursday afternoon at the child safety seat checkpoint
at the Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department, where Maryland
State Police officers, area sheriff's deputies, county health workers
and child safety advocates inspected the child safety seats in the
cars of more than 60 Southern Maryland residents. State law requires
all Maryland ...