Used Car Seats from Arizona Saving Lives in Mexico Bob Ortega - The Republic
go to original October 1, 2015

Nogales Fire Department Lt. Eduardo Canzales checks a car seat that proved to be properly installed for 6-month-old Anngel Lopez Salcido. (Nick Oza/The Republic)

Over the past three years, the Phoenix and Rio Rico fire departments have collected more than 1,500 used car seats in Arizona, mostly from the Phoenix area, and donated them across the border, through a program launched by the Arizona-Mexico Commission.

...“It’s a huge problem; people always think it won’t happen to them, and so their children die in accidents because they don’t have seats,” Alma Chavez Guth said.

Guth is president of Víctimas de Violencia Vial (Victims of Road Violence), a Mexican road-safety non-profit group based in Guadalajara. For more than a decade, her group has advocated for adoption of child-automotive-safety laws at national and state levels in Mexico.

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Related: How to Donate Used Car Seats to Save Lives in Mexico (AZCentral)

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