Around Madison: Pilot club sponsors child safety check day
The Madison County Pilot Club will sponsor a Child Safety Seat Check Day on Saturday in the parking lot of Ingles supermarket in Hull.

One More Thing
Many parents are diligent about preparing their vehicle for a summer vacation. They have the oil, fluids, belts and hoses checked; they make certain the tires are in good condition and inflated to the proper pressure, and that's the way it should be. But parents need to add at least one more item to their safety checklist before they take to the highways this summer: child safety seats. Fewer than one in six child seats is installed correctly, according to new data from AAA, and that's a frightening statistic.

ATWEC Technologies Product Sales Surge in Florida
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ATWEC Technologies, Inc. (OTC Markets: ATWT), a US-based child safety company, today announced that it has experienced a sharp sales increase in Florida, selling its Kiddie Voiceâ„¢ safety systems to daycare centers located in Palm Beach County, for their buses and daycare vehicles. In August 2011, the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners approved a new requirement for child safety alarm devices in vehicles used by child care centers.  The deadline for meeting this requirement is September 1, 2012, but the County is encouraging schools to install the devices by April 1 in order to receive a reimbursement of $150 per vehicle, paid by the Children's Services Council. The Company's ...

Child Safety and the SUV
A study that hit the news recently delivered a counterintuitive message. When the general news media reported on the study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics, it gave the impression that sport utility vehicles were no safer for child-passengers than cars. But according to analysis of a much broader study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), children are at least twice as safe in SUVs than in passenger cars when properly restrained. Of course, NHTSA is the federal government agency responsible for automobile and highway safety.