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Winter safety tips to keep your kids injury-free
The cold weather during the holidays does little to keep winter sports enthusiasts inside – especially children. In fact, children ages 14 and under are at a high risk for winter sports injuries.
Morristown – In 2007, there were 17,000 estimated injuries among children from skiing and snowboarding; 24,500 estimated injuries from sledding; and 1,500 estimated injuries from snowmobiles and other equipment.
With the temperatures heating up risk for dehydration increases
Babies and young kids can sometimes sleep so peacefully that we forget they are even there. It can also be tempting to leave a baby alone in a car while we quickly run into the store. The problem is that leaving a child alone in a car can lead to serious injury or death from heatstroke. Young children are particularly at risk, as their bodies heat up three to five times faster than an adult’s.
These tragedies are completely preventable. Here’s how we can all work together to keep kids safe from heatstroke.
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No exemption from passenger and nighttime driving provisions for school act
As school begins, the New Jersey Teen Safe Driving Coalition is reminding parents and teens about the need to follow the state’s Graduated Driver License (GDL) program, which prohibits teens holding a probationary license from carrying more than one passenger and from driving between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Choose a designated driver before you go out.
Drunk driving injuries and fatalities occur year-round, but the roadways can be particularly dangerous during the holidays.
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