DaimlerChrysler Introduces Fit for a Kid in Detroit
13 October 1999
DaimlerChrysler Introduces Fit for a Kid in Detroit With Community-Wide Child Safety Seat InspectionsDETROIT, Oct. 12 -- DaimlerChrysler issued the following: WHAT: DaimlerChrysler will host a community-wide child safety seat check- point. Newly trained Detroit-based Fit for a Kid inspectors will conduct the inspections helping parents and caregivers properly install child safety seats. The check-point follows a press conference with Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus and DaimlerChrysler Chairman Robert Eaton that will introduce Fit for a Kid in the Detroit community and the opening of the new I-75 Northbound ramp at Chrysler Drive. Fit for a Kid offers DaimlerChrysler customers child safety seat inspections through its network of dealerships. The service is free and by appointment. The service will be launched nationally early next year. WHY: On any given day in the Detroit area, an estimated 8 out of every 10 children are at risk in safety seats that are not properly installed. Through Fit for a Kid, DaimlerChrysler, working with Fisher-Price and the National Safety Council, wants to help prevent needless injury and death among children by offering parents and caregivers this important service. WHEN: 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Thursday, October 14 WHERE: Parking Lot 26, adjacent to the new Chrysler Museum, 1000 Chrysler Drive, Auburn Hills HOW: To get an inspection, parents and caregivers should bring their vehicles and child safety seats. If they can bring their children, it is better but not necessary. No appointment is necessary for this community event.