SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Effort Pressed to Supply Car Seats for Children
If a newborn is hurt in an auto accident in the San Fernando Valley in 1994 because the child is not buckled in, it will not be the fault of Mark and Sue Younger.
As part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness about the importance of car seats for children, the Saugus couple are leading a drive to get Valley residents to donate 2,500 car seats to local hospitals.
The effort is part of Operation Baby Buckle, a four-year campaign by Primerica Financial Services to donate 25,000 car seats annually throughout the nation.
The Youngers, national sales managers for Primerica Financial Services in Sherman Oaks, have three daughters, ages 6, 5 and 2.
The car seats, which are purchased at a discounted cost of $15 each, will be donated beginning next year to hospitals in states such as California, where state law does not allow newborns to be released from the hospital without a car seat. Most of the car seats will go to low-income families.
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