Spotswood Borough Proclamations

Proclamation

WHEREAS, unintentional injury is the number one killer of children 14 and under; and

WHEREAS, each year, more than 5,000 children 14 and under die from unintentional injuries; and

WHEREAS, emergency rooms experience nearly 2.4 million visits from children 14 and under each summer; and

WHEREAS, 90 percent of these injuries and deaths are preventable; and

WHEREAS, 41 percent of these deaths occur during "trauma season," the months of May June, July and August; and

WHEREAS, the risk areas that show the greatest seasonal surge in deaths and injuries between May and August compared to the rest of the year are biking, drowning, pedestrian, motor vehicle occupants and falls; and

WHEREAS, Safe Kids Worldwide and Safe Kids New Jersey, led by the New Jersey State Safety Council promote childhood injury prevention by uniting diverse groups into local and state coalitions, developing innovative educational tools and strategies, initiating public policy changes, promoting new technology and raising awareness through the media; and

WHEREAS, Safe Kids Worldwide, with the support of founding sponsor Johnson & Johnson, launches Safe Kids Week 2007, "Make it a Safe Kids Summer" which focuses on five of the deadliest warm-weather risk areas of motor vehicles, drowning, pedestrian, biking and falls; and

WHEREAS, Safe Kids New Jersey has planned special childhood injury prevention activities and community-based events for Safe Kids Week 2007 in an effort to educate families about summer safety.

NOW, THERFORE, I, Barry H. Zagnit, Mayor of the Borough of Spotswood, do hereby proclaim April 28-May 6, 2007 as NATIONAL SAFE KIDS WEEK, in New Jersey and call upon all the residents of the Borough of Spotswood to join with me in supporting the efforts and activities of Safe Kids New Jersey to prevent childhood injury.

Dated: April 16, 2007

Barry H. Zagnit

Mayor

Patricia DeStefano RMC

Municipal Clerk