PHOTO: Fire Inspector/Investigator Maria Perez with the Victoria Fire Department adjusts a child’s seat belt during a car seat inspection event.
Caregivers can learn about best practices for child safety seats and find out whether their children are buckled up properly at the City of Victoria’s upcoming car seat inspection event.
The car seat inspections will be 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Sept. 13 at the parking lot of Target, 7608 Zac Lentz Parkway. The court is hosting the event ahead of Child Passenger Safety Week, a national observance Sept. 15-21 that aims to raise awareness of car seat safety.
The event is free, but registration is required. To register, visit www.victoriatx.gov/carseat.
The City’s certified child passenger safety technicians will teach caregivers about best practices they might not be aware of, including how to use the seat belt or LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) systems in their vehicles and how to install car seats according to safety standards for their specific seats and vehicles.
Each caregiver must bring the child and the child’s car seat to the event.
The City has been certified as a car seat fitting station by the Texas A&M AgriLife Passenger Safety and KidSafe Initiatives Program. This means that the City is committed to following best practice standards for educating caregivers about how to safely restrain their children in their vehicles.
Learn more at Lunch and Learn
Municipal Court Administrator Tiffany Totah and Texas A&M AgriLife County Extension Agent JJ Janssen will present on car seat safety at the September Lunch and Learn hosted by the Victoria Police Department and the Victoria Fire Department.
The event will be 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Community Center annex.
Stay connected
For more information about becoming certified as child passenger safety technician, visit www.cert.safekids.org.
For more information about Municipal Court programs and services, visit www.victoriatx.gov/municipalcourt.