Three DC government agencies, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), the Metropolitan Police Department and the Fire and EMS Department, along with DC Safe Kids, will observe Child Passenger Safety Week by offering inspections of child passenger car seats by certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians. The emphasis will be on training parents and caregivers to install and adjust their car seats correctly. The locations for the free inspections are.

Time	Date	Location
3 pm - 8 pm	Monday, February 13, 2006	Bell Multicultural Senior High School, 3145 Hiatt Place, NW
3 pm - 9 pm	Tuesday, February 14, 2006	La Petite Day Care Center, 1 Michigan Avenue, NW
2 pm - 8 pm	Wednesday, February 15, 2006	Engine 32, 2425 Irving Street, SE
2 pm - 8 pm	Thursday, February 16, 2006	Randall Circle, 2900 Block of Minnesota Avenue, SE
9 am - 1 pm	Friday, February 17, 2006	Nebraska Avenue and Chesapeake Street, NW
2 pm - 8 pm	Friday, February 17, 2006	Associates for Renewal in Education, 45 P Street, NW
11 am - 3 pm	Saturday, February 18, 2006	Engine 24, 5101 Georgia Avenue, NW
3 pm - 8 pm	Saturday, February 18, 2006	Curtis Chevrolet, 5929 Georgia Avenue, NW

At these locations, technicians will teach parents and caregivers proper installation and adjustment techniques so that they can meet their responsibility to make sure children are always properly restrained in a moving vehicle. This is the ninth in a series of community meetings (one in each ward) organized by DDOT and Clear Channel Adshel to discuss the new bus shelter program.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, approximately 73 percent of all child  passenger restraints - more than 80 percent of car seats and about 40 percent of booster seats - are used incorrectly. In a crash, a child restrained incorrectly is 3.5 times more likely to be seriously injured than a child who is properly restrained.