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Lightning Safety Week is June 21-27 and could not come soon enough as the National Weather Service reports that seven people have been struck and killed by lightning in just the last eight days while unprotected outdoors during a thunderstorm. To bring this closer to home, Chelal Matos, a 12-year-old boy from Fredericksburg, Virginia, was [...]
With warmer weather drawing more motorcyclists on the roads, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and Governor Kaine are urging motorists and motorcyclists to safely share the roads in an effort to reduce accidents, injuries, and fatalities.
VDOT reports that in 2007 approximately 2,200 individuals were injured and 126 were killed in motorcycle accidents on Virginia’s [...]
On May 22, 2009, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall alert along with Jitterbug’s and Samsung’s, the manufacturer of the Jitterbug cell phone, issuance of a voluntary safety recall notice indicating that 160,000 of the Jitterbug cell phones that were sold between March 2008 and May 2009 may not be [...]
With pool season 2009 underway, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is educating the public on swimming pool and spa safety as well as enforcing the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act that went into effect in December 2008. The main purpose of the Act is to improve the safety of [...]
