Purple Ribbon Month 2009 Campaign
Never leave children unattended in a vehicle
Riverside County Department of Public Health is asking for your support in participating in Purple Ribbon Month. This month-long campaign started after Kaitlyn Russell, 6 months old, lost her life to hyperthermia after left unattended in her babysitter’s van. The purple ribbons are tied on trees, antennas, mailboxes and worn on lapels to remind people never leave children alone in and around vehicles.
After a result of this incident, California enacted a law, effective January 2002, that makes it illegal to leave a child 6 years of age or younger alone in a motor vehicle.
However, heat is not the only danger. Car theft, car fire, kidnapping, power window strangulations, and cars rolling into traffic are just some of the other dangers to kids.
The Riverside County Injury Prevention Services Department, located at 3900 Sherman Drive, in Riverside will be closed every Friday beginning August 14, 2009 and will continue through June 30, 2010. Regular service hours from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. will be maintained Monday through Thursday of each week.
Injury Prevention Services is once again a distribution site for purple ribbon materials such as flyers, lapel pins, antenna and tree ribbons. Quantities are limited, so if you would like to support this campaign, please contact Injury Prevention Services at (951) 358-7171.
Visit 4 R Kids Sake website at http://www.4rkidssake.org/ for more information.
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