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Use of car safety belts is a deterrent to serious injury
The use of safety belts in auto
mobiles has been encouraged
I and recognized as a deterrent to
?J serious injury for several years.
Evidence of their efficiency is
well known and seat belts are re
quired as part of the manufactur
~. ing process. Still, we find that
most fatal accidents involve indi
viduals who failed to use their
seats belts. They can never save
f a life neatly rolled up and out of
< the way Infant safety restraints
? have also been available for a
? long time, but how many parents
' use them? How many of our new
I* borns leave the hospital resting
in their mother's arms, ready to
be thrown into the dashboard or
windshield on impact, should the
| car be involved in an accident?
J Even a panic stop without an ac
J cident being involved can hurtle
J the newborn infant into some
J fixed object in the car and cause
\ serious or fatal injuries.
't Every hour six people are
; killed in motor vehicle accidents.
? Every week 1,000 people are
; killed and 38,500 are injured in
? motor vehicle accidents. This is
%
i
the number one killer in children
age one and older, killing some
8,500 children under age five
each year. The chances of being
killed are 25 percent greater
when the occupants are within 25
miles of home and at speeds of
less than 40 miles per hour. The
usual cause of death in a motor
vehicle accident is that of the oc
cupant being thrown forward by
the impact and striking some
thing. When a driver brakes at 30
mph, an infant held on a lap or in
one's arms is propelled forward
at a speed equal to being dropped
from a third-floor window. Then,
too, the unbuckled adult may be
thrown forward and crush the in
fant.
Safety belts reduce the chance
of serious or fatal injury by 60
percent. The use of a lap and
shoulder belt offers the best pos
sible protection. The life you
save could be the life of yourself
or your child.
Interest in this subject is dem
onstrated by a two-car, head-on
accident several months ago. A
car with four teenagers hit a
young school teacher's car bead
on, on the wrong side of the road.
The four teenagers and the
school teacher were killed in
stantly. The teacher's two-year
old daughter, who was buckled
into a good infant safety restraint
seat had been a topic of repeated
insistence to the parents by an
area pediatrician and was all
that saved the child's life.
An intense safety campaign
and educational program has
been launched by the American
Academy of Family Physicians
to encourage the use of approved
infant safety restraints.
All of us should form the habit of
"buckling up" (and making our
children do so also) when we first
enter and automobile. Written as
a public service of the North Car
olina Academy of Family Physi
cians.
ECU plans summer program for gifted students
GREENVILLE? The 1988 East
Carolina University Science
Camp for Academically Gifted
Junior and senior high school stu
dents will be held July 20? Au
gust 1 this year. Sponsor of the
camp is the ECU Science-Math
ematics Education Center.
The camp will consist of two
one-week sessions, each for a
specific age group. Students who
have completed seventh and
eighth grades may enroll in the
July 20?25 session; the second
session, July 27? Aug. 1, is for
students who have completed
ninth and tenth grades.
The camp program features in
depth instructional sessions,
based on the expressed interests
of individual students. Each
weeks 's offerings will include
computer science, photography,
astronomy, radiation science,
chemistry, ecology-field biology
and paleontology. Participation
in each session will be limited, in
order to permit individual atten
tion from the instructors.
Campers will live in ECU dor
mitories and have meals and rec
reational opportunities at on
campus facilities. Participants
in the camp will be selected from
among applicants on the basis of
teacher's recommendation,
school record in science and
mathematics, and achievement
scores. Cost per session is $200.
Further information and appli
cation forms are available from
the ECU Science-Math Educa
tion Center, Erwin Hall, East
Carolina University, Greenville,
NC 27834.
Adult basketball league champions
to be decided in tonight's matchup
Tonight will be the night when
one team in the Adult basketball
league will walk away with the
regular season championship ti
tle. The regular season ended in
a three way tie between the "A"
Team, the Phillies and Show
time. Names were drawn and the
winner of Tuesday nights game
between the "A" Team and the
LA Phillies will play Showtime,
the lucky team that drew the bye.
Tonight's game should prove to
be an exciting game just as the
entire season has been. The pub
lic is invited to watch the game
which will be played at Perqui
mans Union Gym at 7 : 15. Admis
sion is 25 cents.
BULLETS AHEAD IN
30 AND OVER LEAGUE
The Bullets lead the 30 and
Over league with a slight edge
over Woodward's Pharmacy.
There were two upsets last week
as the top two teams, the Bullets
and Woodard's Pharmacy, were
defeated by the 76ers and R & T
Seed, respectively. The 30 and
Over league plays every Wednes
day night at the Perquimans
Union Gym beginning at 7:15.
There is no charge for admission.
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