Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children age 3 to 6 and 8. If you have a toddler/child age 1-8, have them in a forward-facing booster seat. Make sure to have them installed right and latched in.
When looking for a car make sure that they have air bags. Frontal air bags have saved 25,782 lives between 1987 and 2008. However, they are supplemental safety devices. Always wear your seat belt. If you have an 0n/off switch, check its position every time you enter your vehicle. If you have a child under 13, turn it off.
Road traffic accidents kill more than 38,000 people a year.
Heely Safety
Heelies have caused problems, including a head injury that required surgery. They are likely to be not any more dangerous than skateboards or inline skates, but safety gear should be used. The wheels can be removed, which is a good thing, because this can prevent injuries.
Here is info on heelies directly from a website:
• Make sure your kids stagger their feet when heeling, with one foot in front of the other. If they keep both feet together, they will likely fall.
• Kids should always wear protective safety equipment, including a helmet, wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads, when heeling, just like they should when using a skateboard, scooter, or inline skates.
• Don't leave the wheels in your child's Heelys all of the time, which will simply tempt your child to use the Heelys in skate mode more impulsively, including in parking lots, grocery stores, or the mall, and when he is less likely to be prepared and have protective gear.
• Heelys are on W.A.T.C.H.'s (World Against Toys Causing Harm) 2006 “10 worst toys” list.
• Don't let your child use the Heelys in skate mode inside. Even if it really doesn't mark up the floors, if your child falls inside, he may be more likely to hit something hard, such as a table, desk, or display case, and get hurt. Also, you wouldn't let your child roller skate or ride his skateboard in the grocery store, so why would you let him go heeling down the aisles?
Many places, including schools, now ban children from wearing Heelys in skate mode. As we personally learned on a recent school field trip, they also make you take the wheels out of your Heelys at The Texas Capitol in Austin, The Alamo in San Antonio, and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. However, you can go heeling along the River Walk if you want, although I wonder if they are keeping any statistics on how many kids with Heelys fall in...
The problem with heelies is falling, which is due to gravity (force and impulse) and wheels- friction and balance.
Here are some creative ways to make heelies safer:
Replace the wheels with rockets
Don’t wear heelies inside, in crowded areas, or in malls
Wear safety gear- helmets and knee, elbow, and wrist pads
turn them into hovercraft shoes to decrease friction
wear cushions or bubble wrap
decrease gravity (go to Mars or space shuttle or underwater, slice the Earth in half)
hold a big stick like a tight rope walker to improve balance
The wires for the NXT are like telephone jacks, with one difference: the snap-connector on top is to one side, not in the center, to prevent kids from connecting their robots to the telephone line.
Brrriiiiing! Brrriiiiiing!
person: Hello?
NXT: Hello.
person: Who is this?
NXT: Alpha Rex.
Hovercraft Safety
hovercraft operation may include traversing areas unaccessible by conventional forms of emergency transportation and or uncharted regions, some ways to cut down on risks are to:
1. always carry a personal flotation devise and a fire extingiser
2. when operating a hovercraft never ride upside-down, headless or off of cliffs.
