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Spot check, car seat clinicIf part of seatbeit campaign Bab %ý Spot checks and a car seat clinic are of injury in a motor vehicle collision by as ti being held today as part of this week's much as 75 per cent. Spring Provincial Seat-BeIt Campaign. Yet as many as 80 per cent of child car 'Me focus of this year's campaign is seats are used incorrectly, Halton Regtonal booster seats. Police said.l 4 Haiton Regionai Police are conducting a The campaign will also be promoting spot check on Ontario Street, and a car seat new regulations, whicb passed in clinic is being held from 5 to 8 p.m. at December. For the first time in Ontario, Milton Fire Department's centrai station on booster seats will be mandatory for anyone Steeles Avenue. transporting a dtild weighing between 40) Tlhe goai is to raise public awareness and 80 pounda. under four-foot-nine, and about the importance of correctly using under the age of eight. child car seats ad boostr sets whita T, . t f.- th, -,, transporting children in family cars. The clinic is being sponsored by the Halton Partners for Car Seat Safety, and is by appointment only. More Canadian children die of road traf- fic injuries than any other cause. A proper- ly used child car seat reduces a childas risk (905) 878-5511, ext. 3954. Police are reminding Miltonians that wearing a seat-beit is mandatory under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act. The driver of the vehicle is responsible for ensuring ail passengers under the age of 16 are proper- ly restrained. ,.Local man turns himself in after hit-and-run accident A man tumed himself in to Milton police Friday, two days after a cycliat was injured in a hit-and-run accident on Derry Road. The accident occurred just before 10 p.m. Wednesday. A 21-year-old cydist was riding on the south shoulder travelling eastbound on Denry Road, near Holly Avenue, when he was sideswiped by a vehicle. The car spun out on the gravel shoulder, recovered and continued travelling east- bound, Halton Regional Police said. Fortunately, the cyclist received only minor injuries, and was taken to Milton Distict Hospital by a witness. Police were asking for the public's help in locating a grey, late model BMW with damage to its right side. including a miss- ing nùrror. Police said the man who turned himself in provided investigators witb details of the incident. AS5 1 -year-old man of Allan Crescent bas heen charged with one count of failing to stop at an accident. He's scheduled to appear at Ontario Court of Justice in Burlington May 10. The Canadian ChamPion, Tuesday, April 19, 2005-3 NO HAGESUROF N T OOIS r k