Crime & Safety

Toyota Danvers, Police To Hold Child Seat Safety Day

Certified technicians and officers will make sure child safety seats are properly installed and check for safety recalls.

Estimates are that 75 percent of child safety seats are not properly installed.
Estimates are that 75 percent of child safety seats are not properly installed. (Kyle Will/Patch)

DANVERS, MA — With estimates that 75 percent of child safety seats are not properly installed, Danvers Toyota, the Danvers Police Department and the Kiwanis Club will hold a child seat safety event on Sunday morning.

From 9 a.m. to noon, police officers and certified national technicians will be at the Andover Street location to make sure child safety seats are properly installed, install new seats, check for safety recalls and educate parents and families on when a safety seat needs to be replaced.

Go here for more details on the event.

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(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)

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