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Halloween Safety: Put a Cell Phone in Your Child's Jack-O-Lantern This Year
November 7th, 2008
Parents who hear the same Halloween safety advice every year are getting a new suggestion this year: Make sure your child takes a cell phone in his or her jack-o-lantern and knows how to use it -- in case he or she is separated from a group or suffers an injury while trick-or-treating. Consider an inexpensive prepaid cell phone if you don't have an extra cell phone. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 36 million Halloween trick-or-treaters took to the streets in 2007. Children are more than twice as likely to be hit and killed by a vehicle on Halloween as on any other night of the year, according to Safe Kids Worldwide. Between 4 and 10 p.m. on Halloween,...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-11-07)
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