September 23, 2023 • 29 mins
Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring Trevor Riggen, President of Humanitarian Services at the American Red Cross. Trevor Riggen joins the show to discuss the critical blood supply shortage across the U.S. and information on the relief services the American Red Cross provides in the aftermath of extreme weather and major disasters. Anne Carlson, Acting Administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, also joins the show. Anne Carlson checks in for Child Passenger Safety Week to discuss the importance of properly installed child safety seats and the latest data on traffic crashes and fatalities nationwide.
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Welcome to iHeartRadio Communities, a publicaffairs special focusing on the biggest issues impacting
you this week. Here's Ryan Gorman. Thanks for joining us here on iHeartRadio
Communities. I'm Ryan Gorman, andwe have a few important conversations lined up
for you for this show. Injust a bit, we'll check in with
the Acting Administrator for the National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration to discuss Child Passengers Safety
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Week and the latest data on trafficcrashes and traffic fatalities across the country.
But right now, to get thingsstarted, I'm joined by Trevor Riggan,
President of Humanitarian Services at the AmericanRed Cross, to talk about the relief
services they provide following major disasters anda whole lot more. Trevor, thanks
so much for coming on the show. And before we get to everything having
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to do with relief services, let'sstart with an issue that's been in the
news recently, the American Red Crossesdeclaration that we have a critically low supply
of blood donations throughout the US rightnow, what can you tell us about
that? So we have seen atwenty five percent decrease in the amount of
blood we have on our shelves justin the last few weeks, since early
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October, since early August, andthat reduction puts so much at risk for
families who need blood and individual whoneed blood all across the country. So
there is a desperate need to makesure that people make donations, that they
make those appointments and keep those appointmentsto make sure we have a safe and
stable blood supply all across the country. As you mentioned, there is a
tie end to the climate crisis andthe disaster you've been seeing. Last year,
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we saw a twenty three percent increasein the number of canceled blood drives
through the severe weather and climate emergenciesall across the country. So that means
it's even more important that we getnew blood donors and stable blood donnors that
can come back time and time againand make sure people have the blood that
they need. Can you elaborate onthe American Red Crosses roll in blood donations
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and keeping our national blood supply atthe levels it needs to be stained at.
So the Medicanrand Cross provides almost fortypercent of the nation's blood supply,
and so that includes recruiting the donors, engaging the dotor, collecting the blood,
testing the blood and then providing itto hospitals both ahead of time every
single day, but also an urgentneeds when you need what they collect stad
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order where they need blood urgently fora surgery or an accident. And so
we have both the collection efforts,more than twelve hundred blood drives every single
day across the country happening, andwe also have hundreds of volunteers every day
ready to go to deliver blood tohospitals just in time to save lives.
You can learn more about the blooddonation work the American Red Cross does at
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red Cross Blood dot org. That'sRed Cross Blood dot org And Trevor,
this isn't the first time that we'veseen a shortage like this, right,
I remember seeing something similar happening duringthe pandemic because of the logistical issues caused
by COVID nineteen making it hard forpeople to donate and making it difficult to
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put on those different blood drives thatwe constantly see throughout the country, especially
at the onset of the pandemic wherepeople were rightfully so cautious to come into
closed facilities and we're learning how tolive in in a pandemic environment. We
saw a drastic reduction in the numberof people that came forward. And you
know, the American public always respectseems to respond to urgent cries for help,
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and we're trusting that the same willhappen today with a surgeon need for
blood. We saw that happening backduring the pandemic. We saw our numbers
go back up. We're hoping thatthey'll respond possibly here today as well.
I'm Ryan Gorman, joined by TrevorRiggan, President of Humanitarian Services at the
American Red Cross. You can learnmore at red Cross dot org. So
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before we dive into the work theAmerican Red Cross does with relief services following
natural disasters, can you give usa broad overview of the mission of the
American Red Cross and in all thatyour organization does on a day to day
basis, because it encompasses a widerange of different programs and services, so
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I can give the broad pictures.So obviously, we have our work to
keep a forty percent of the nation'sblood supply safe and available for people that
need it. We also have somethingwe call training services, and that's providing
life saving training to millions of peopleevery year. First Day CPR. That's
a huge part of the Red Crossmission. Our disaster relief services. We
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respond to nearly sixty thousand disasters ayear. The majority of those are actually
house fires, So we have volunteerson standby twenty four to seven a days,
responding to almost two hundred disasters everysingle day, all across the countries,
all across the country. We haveour work with the military. We
provide frontline support to both active dutymilitary and their families back at home,
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making sure they can get emergency communicationsback and forth the loved ones, but
also providing supports of veterans and woundedwarriors and hospitals and communities all across the
country. And then our work toengage volunteers, so we provide an outlet
to the people who want to give, who want to serve. We have
tens of thousands of volunteers every yearwho step forward to serve in each of
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those lines of service and make surethe communities get the help they need when
crisis happen. So September is NationalPreparedness Month, and we have seen a
number of major disasters just in thepast couple of months, let alone in
twenty twenty three. Tell us moreabout the relief services you provide. So
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the Red Cross responds to every disasterthat happens, and the range is incredible,
and the frequency is what's most troubling. Recently, just in the last
ten years, we've seen in Dublinand the number of climate driven disasters the
American recross responding to. And inthe first half of twenty twenty three,
the United States actually saw a recordtwenty three different billion dollars disasters, disasters
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that cause more than a billion dollarsin insured loss. And this includes atmospheric
rivers in California, deadly tornadoes inSouth and Midwest, the extreme heat effects
we've seen in almost every community acrossthe country. And even now we're preparing
for more. We still have overtwo thousand volunteers and staff and communities all
across the country responding to the deadlywildfires in Hawaii, the effects of the
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hurricane of Florida, Georgia, theCarolinas, the once in a hundred year
flood in Vermont. The need isconstant. The need is constant. Disasters
have become a true chronic issue anda true humanitarian crisis in our country.
Our range of services range from makingsure that shelters are open, that people
have a safe place to go tomeals to eat services those shelters, We
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provide health and mental health support tothose families. We also provide casework services
and long term recovery supports the familiesto make sure they have a passed forward
in that incredibly complex and long journeyto get back to where they started.
The response. Depending on the disasteritself, does that change at all.
If you're dealing with let's say,the deadly and devastating wildfires in Maui can
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here to our hurricane in the southeasternportion of the United States, it does.
Our service can be very customized basedon the disaster and based on the
impact that communities are facing. Sofatalities are a common thread on many of
these devastating climate events, and wetreat fatalities very differently. We have very
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highly trained teams that do community support. We set up centers where families can
come who are looking for the lovedones, where we can connect them with
services and government agencies to help themnavigate the complex process of how to identify
if their lovel one is lost ornot. We have different levels of financial
assistance and services for those families mentalhealth support to help them move through that
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process, which is very different thanthe immediacy of an evacuation, where really
our focuses on sheltering and making surepeople have a safe place to go in
a place to start to build arecovery from How much of a strain has
been put on your organization the AmericanRed Cross the past couple of years,
because I know, the pandemic wasan extremely busy time. There were all
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kinds of different issues there, andthen there was also a period where it
was tough for people to donate becauseof the financial situation they were dealing with
in this country. Now we havea year where we're seeing all of these
different natural disasters. It just seemslike it's one thing on top of another.
It has been an incredibly challenging years, and we have been really we're
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racing to both adapt our mission andgrow our capacity to take that on.
So every single day we are adaptinghow we serve, creating more services and
tools, really focused right now onhaving equa moore response, being able to
better identify communities that need us themost so the help can get to them
first. We're using a lot oftechnology and data analysis, even artificial intelligence
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to help us better understand how toserve those that need us. We're also
working very quickly to grow our capacity. All of those needs you just spoke
to really are about this. Redcrossneeds to be stronger. We need to
have volunteers in the communities that needus the most. We need to have
the local partners that are connected tous, but before and after disaster strikes,
and then we need more employees,which we're adding to our workforce every
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single day to make sure the RedCross can be there for what has become
just an acceleration of events. I'mRyan Gorman, joined by Trevor Riggan,
President of Humanitarian Services at the AmericanRed Cross. You can learn more at
Redcross dot org. Again, that'sRedcross dot org. So obviously, in
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order to accomplish everything you do,and we spend some time covering the wide
range of services and programs you provide, you need a lot of different things
to make that happen, including volunteers. So let's start there. What are
some different ways that people can volunteerto help the American Red Cross. So
it's incredibly easy. You can goto Redcross dot org and sign up to
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be a volunteer today. You cancome with training. Say you're a nurse
and you want to serve with yourlicensure, we have ways to plug in
and mental health experts, logisticians,I experts. We need everyone who brings
those skills to the table. Butwe'll also train you in skills if you
don't have them to live you apart of whether it's responding to a local
house fire, being a part ofwork with the military, or responding disasters
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all over the country even around theworld. And so you get to right
across that org sign up today andjust start that process of be a humanitarian
response worker. And then donations ofcourse across a lot of money to do
what you're doing to help all ofthese different families across the country in these
different difficult situations. Two things here. First of all, can you give
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us a sense as to how familiesspecifically are being impacted in some of these
different areas that you've been to andhave viewed for yourself. And then when
someone donates to the American Red Cross, where exactly is that money going,
how is it helping? So onthe community side, the impact unfortunately is
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just such a heavier toll on frontlinecommunities, communities that are both on the
front lines of the climate crisis.These are families that are pacing repetitive loss
disaster after disaster. You know,last year, I was on a hurricane
response and I met a woman wholost her home three times, three times
of fifteen years. She had movedeach time to avoid a disaster, thinking
she was safer and each time andthe disaster followed her, and that just
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loss of resilience each and every time. That same family was also on the
front line of other chronic social issueslike health, hunger, and housing,
and so at the intersection of those, it's just devastating loss. And so
we are really focused on how dowe expand our services and build readiness in
those communities, making sure they haveimmediate help but also a pass to long
term recovery. And that's why it'sso critical that we raise the money and
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resources we need to meet that missionbecause it's growing every single year. In
fact, we expect to spend onebillion dollars over the next few years to
make sure we have the capacity thatwe've expanded these services and families like I
just described get the help they need. And when you donate to the Red
Cross, ninety cents on every dollaris spent making sure families and communities get
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their resources they need, whether it'sa disaster services, our work with the
military, or even our work withBioMed. And so when you make that
the donation, know that we arespending every single dollar we can to help
those in need, programming it inthe most efficient and effective way possible while
also leveraging partners. We bring hundredsof partners to the table to make sure
we're also leveraging their skill sets andtheir resources so there's not duplication, so
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that every resource we have is maximized, because in the midst of this crisis,
we need everyone to be at thetable. And one thing I want
to point out, as someone whohas covered for iHeart Radio countless hurricanes in
recent years, a lot of timesthe media attention, the national attention to
the places that were hit by ahurricane, whether it's the Panhandle in Florida
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or the Fort Myers area after HurricaneIan, that attention fades, but the
need remains. And I know theAmerican Red Cross year they are on the
grounds helping these families long after thestorm has passed or the wildfire has passed.
Correct, That's exactly right, andthat long after the cameras disappear,
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the need actually increases. Those families. We start to see families who thought
they had resources but quickly burned throughthose You can imagine weeks in a hotel
at weeks of sleeping on friends andfamilies couches and eating out because your home
has been destroyed. Trying to workthrough the complex issues of insurance and government
programs takes time, and we seethose needs start to bubble up weeks after
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the disaster happens, and that's wherethe value of our casework and are really
person to persons service that we providecan make all the difference. And so
The Cross is committed to being there, to being a part of community's recovery
every single day, and we needthis support to make sure we can do
it not just at the pace we'redoing it today, but the pace we
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know we're going to see tomorrow,which is going to be bigger and faster
than we've ever seen. And again, everyone can learn more first of all
about the blood donation shortage and theneed for that at Redcross Blood dot org.
Specifically red Cross Blood dot Org andIf you want to learn more about
the relief services provided by the AmericanRed Cross and everything else they do,
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including all the different ways you canhelp, from volunteering to donating, go
to Redcross dot org Again Redcross dotorg. Trevor Riggan, president of Humanitarian
Services at the American Red Cross,with us here on iHeart Radio Communities.
Trevor, want to thank you somuch for all the tremendous work you're doing
and for coming on the show.We appreciate it. Thank you so much,
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I really appreciate it. All Right, Now, I'm Ryan Gorman here
on Ihear Radio Communities, and nowI'm going to bring in our next guest.
I'm joined by the Acting Administrator fromthe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and
Carlson for Child Passenger Safety Week.And thank you so much for taking a
few minutes to come on the showto talk about this really important issue.
And let me start with the latestdata on just how dangerous it is for
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parents to secure their kids in improperlyinstalled car seats. This is one of
those things where maybe you think youhaven't done right. It looks right,
but perhaps it's not installed exactly howit's supposed to be. I'm sure all
parents listening right now want to makesure when they're traveling with their children they're
protected as much as humanly possible.So what do the numbers tell us?
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Sure, let me just start withhow many children die and traffic crashes every
year. This is based on twentytwenty one data, So one one eighty
four children who died, and abig percentage of those kids are either not
in cars at all or are incar seats that are not properly installed.
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But let me flip that and tellyou how just how safe it is if
your child is in the appropriate carseat and the car seat is installed appropriately.
So we see a reduction and therisk of an infant dying in a
car crash of seventy one percent ifthey're in a properly instant car seat,
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and it's all about fifty four percentfor toddlers. So it's really really important
to make sure not only that youhave a car seat, but that it's
installed correctly. What are some ofthe things that parents should keep in mind
when first of all, purchasing acar seat. Sure, so one thing
to do is to go to NITAhas a website NSA dot gov slash the
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right Seat, and there are lotsof there's lots of really good information about
a couple of different things. Oneis what is the right seat for the
child's age, age, weight,and height. That makes a big difference.
Another thing is you want to makesure that the car seat is compliant.
What that means is that it's certifiedto MISS is what're called FMBS.
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It's a safety standard and it getstested to make sure that it's safe.
And then the other thing you wantto do is make sure the seat is
installed correctly. And that's where thisweek is especially important, and our website
again at NITZA dot gov slash theright Seat can let you know where to
go find a location where you canget your car seats checked out. And
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when it comes to making sure carseats are installed properly, what are some
general tips that you can provide toparents listening right now so maybe at some
point soon they can go out totheir vehicles, spend a little time with
the car seat, take a secondlook, double check everything, and make
sure that the car seat that theyhave is installed the right way so their
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child is as safe as possible whenthey're riding in that vehicle. Sure two
things. Obviously, follow the instructions. It's not as intuitive if you think
it's going to be, especially forthe rear facing seats where they really need
to be anchored in. So ifyour car seat is swishing around in the
back seat, that's a sign thatit's not anchored in improperly. It's got
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to be really thirty sort of steadilyheld. So that's the two tips I've
give you. Follow the manufacturer's instructionsand make sure that it feels really like
it's really anchored into the seat,because if it's improperly installed, as we've
already talked about, children are alot higher risktrey or injury, even death,
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and there are a lot of carseats that aren't properly installed across the
country. That's right, and weestimate that it's about half and again especially
problematic for those rear facing seats thatreally need to be anchored in closely.
So you know, it's really reallyimportant that you get it in and that
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you get it in so that it'sinstalled correctly. You can check again on
our website, can check with citiesand counties. It's there are a lot
of certified experts around the country,who can help make sure if you're if
you have any doubt about whether thatseat is really anchored in In terms of
how far we've come with child safety, whether it's the safety of car seats,
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the safety of cars, what havewe seen in terms of the long
term trend So the long term trendsare really encouraging. I mean that's in
part because so I'm old enough sothat we didn't even wear seatbelts, let
alone have car seats. If youlook at some really old ones, they
are like little hammocks that would hangin the back. They did nothing to
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protect a child. So both foralland this is our data about fatalities generally,
we've just seen a huge decline andand how many people die per the
numbers of miles driven what we callthat the rate of fatalities that used to
be have around three or four perone hundred million miles, it's now around
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a little over one. So that'sjust a huge decline and a lot of
that safety has benefited kids. There'sother things in the vehicles that make them
a lot safer. So the structureof the vehicle. We have something called
electronic stability control, so they don'troll over as easily at courts. Airbags
and seat belts, that's really doa lot to protect adults and older teens,
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etc. So there's tons of safetyimprovement, but one of the biggest
ones is child safety seats as longas the properly inspelled. I'm Ryan Gorman
here on iHeart Radio Communities joined bythe National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations Acting Administrator
and Carlson to discuss child passenger safetyas this is Child Passenger Safety Week.
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One issue that comes up a lotduring the summer months, and it did
yet again over the past few months. Hot cars and kids in hot cars.
A number of steps have been takenin recent years to help address that
tragic issue because unfortunately there are alwaysa number of fatalities associated with that every
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year. Yeah, the place youreally need to worry about it is obviously
in hot climates. You already mentionedthe summer, but also the hotter the
climate. The more we see kidsdying in cars and so places like Florida
and Texas and California, you reallyneed to be vigilant. So we run
campaigns reminding people to check, alwayscheck. Here's probably the biggest risk factor
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for children dying in hot cars.It's when you change the caregiver. So
it might be that dad takes thechild to childcare every morning and one day
mom does it and Mom forgets,or grandma, grandpa, or the babysitter,
So just really being vigilant and constantlyreminding. Another thing is don't leave
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your child in a car seat torun an errand to run in for fifteen
minutes. It is striking how hotcars getting how quickly a child's body temperature
will increase. It's really dramatic,way higher than you ever think it's going
to be. The interior of acar can get up to say one hundred
twenty twenty five degrees, even whenthe outside air temperature is lower. So
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don't leave your child unattended in acar. And then the final one is
if you're not using your car,and it's part saying your driveway or garage
lock it, because sometimes kids getinto cars and they don't know it and
then they can't get out and theycan overheat that way too. So those
are the three different ways we seechildren getting trapped in hot cars. Sometimes
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a caregiver just forgets, and that'sthe biggest tragedy of all because nobody means
to leave their child in a hotcar. So again, if you're changing
care givers, if you're changing yourroutine in some way, really got to
remind yourself. You can even putyou know, we'll put a sticky on
your on your dashboard to remind yourself, turn around and check if a child's
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asleep or something. You know,it happens and you're sleep deprived and you're
off to work or you're off youknow, in a hurry, and you
just forget it can happen, andwe want to make sure that it doesn't.
Those are just really, really tragicdeaths. Can you give us a
sense of all the different kinds ofwork you do at the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration beyond things like Child PassengerSafety Week or some of the initiatives that
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you just mentioned tied to preventing kidsfrom being left in hot cars. Sure,
so we do rulemakings. We issuewhat are called federal motor vehicle safety
standards. Of course, one ofthe most obvious ones is for seat belts.
Those are mandatory, but not justhaving a seatbelt, but making sure
the seat belt works in a particularway and its protective as it can be
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rules for airbags, which are reallyreally protective strengthening the vehicle. And we
have a couple new proposed rules forautomatic emergency breaking, which would basically take
over from a driver who either doesn'tbreak hard enough or doesn't break at all,
and prevent a crash from happening,and can even avoid pedestrians even at
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night. So it's pretty remarkable technology. So that's a big part of what
we do. We also issue fueleconomy standards to make your car more fuel
efficient, to get you more mileagefor less gasoline, really really important.
We have a new proposal that hasjust come out that would really increase fuel
economy dramatically. We also administer abouteight hundred million dollars a year in grants
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to states who use that money tokeep you safer on the road. But
it's mostly for behavior. So thereare four behaviors that contribute to crashes way
too frequently. One is failure towear a speedboats. Seems really obvious,
but half of all fatalities are amongpeople who are not wearing the sheetbelt.
That's such an easy way to protectyourself impair driving. I'm afraid we've gotten
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way better about people not getting behindthe wheel and driving drunk. But we're
not there yet, and there's stilltoo many people that get behind the wheel.
Don't do it a designated driver,take a ride share, don't get
behind the wheel when you're drinking.A third is distracted driving, and this
one's a real problem and it's onthe increase. Why because everybody's got their
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cell phones and everybody thinks, oh, I need to look at this text
immediately, even though that text canwait, and it can be the difference
between life or death. Crash ornot. Taking your eyes off the road
and looking at your phone is abad idea. And the final one is
speeding. So everybody speeds. Weknow that. We survey people. Lots
of people think speeding isn't dangerous.It's dangerous, and not just its speeds
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that are saying one hundred miles anhour on the freeways obviously dangerous. But
if you're going ten miles over thelimit and you're on a residential roadway and
you hit a pedestrian, if youwere going ten miles lower, you might
be able to stop, or youmight not injure them as father even prevent
them from dying. So we doa lot to try to get drivers to
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reduce those behaviors that can really causeproblems. And then finally, we recall
vehicles that are unsafe, and wehave you can check again on the it's
a website. You can go checkand see whether your vehicle is under recall,
and if it is, the manufactureris required to provide a remedy for
three. You don't have to payfor it. You just got to get
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your vehicle in to get it repaired. Final question for you, I've read
a number of reports that in postpandemic America we've seen some significant issues on
the roads in terms of crashes andfatalities. We talked earlier about the trend
line when it comes to child passengersafety, but overall crashes fatalities on Americas
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roads, what are we seeing inrecent years. That's a great question.
And we thought that when we're alot of people staying home during the pandemic,
that we'd see a reduction fatalities.We saw the opposite. Fatalities went
up in twenty twenty one. Theyare starting to come down, but we're
still seeing well over forty thousand peopledying every single year on our roadways,
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and we did see an increase insome of those behaviors I just talked about
impair driving, speeding, sometimes feedingwhile impaired, really really bad thing to
do, driving without a seat belt. We saw seat belt rates decline in
some areas. We didn't see anincrease in crashes. What we saw is
an increase in fatal crashes. Andthat's because of these dangerous behaviors that we're
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really really contributing to more people dyingon our roadway. But let me just
say one of the things, evenbefore the pandemic, too many people are
dying on our roadways. And that'swhy I at the US Department of Transportation,
we've adopted something called a National RoadwaysSafety Strategy, which is designed basically
these every tool we have to tryto drive down fatalities. You shouldn't risk
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your life to go to the grocerystore or to go to work, or
to go visit somebody and you know, driving on a highway. And so
we're really trying to do everything wecan, everything from redesigning roadways, reducing
speeds, using speed safety cameras,you know, engaging in communications campaigns to
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get people to wear their seatbelts,to drive sober. You might recognize some
of that. Click at our ticket, drive sober, get pulled over.
These are all MITSA ads that werun, so we're really working to try
to drive traffic fatalities down, trafficinjuries down, traffic crashes overall down.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations Acting Administratorand Carlson with us to discuss child passenger
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safety and a whole lot more.As this week is Child Passenger Safety Week,
you can learn more about all thework this agency does at NHTSA dot
gov. That's NHTSA dot Gov.I want to thank you so much for
taking a few minutes to come onthe show and share all of that with
us. We really appreciate it.Say thank you, Ryan, I really
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appreciate the opportunity to get to sharethat information. Of course, all right,
that's going to do it for thisedition of iHeartRadio Communities. As we
wrap things up, I want tooffer a big thanks to all of our
guests and of course to all ofyou for listening. If you want to
hear previous episodes of this show,we're on your iHeartRadio app. Just search
for iHeartRadio Communities. I'm your host, Ryan Gorman. We'll talk to you
again real soon
Welcome to iHeartRadio Communities, a publicaffairs special focusing on the biggest issues impacting
you this week. Here's Ryan Gorman. Thanks for joining us here on iHeartRadio
Communities. I'm Ryan Gorman, andwe have a few important conversations lined up
for you for this show. Injust a bit, we'll check in with
the Acting Administrator for the National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration to discuss Child Passengers Safety
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Week and the latest data on trafficcrashes and traffic fatalities across the country.
But right now, to get thingsstarted, I'm joined by Trevor Riggan,
President of Humanitarian Services at the AmericanRed Cross, to talk about the relief
services they provide following major disasters anda whole lot more. Trevor, thanks
so much for coming on the show. And before we get to everything having
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to do with relief services, let'sstart with an issue that's been in the
news recently, the American Red Crossesdeclaration that we have a critically low supply
of blood donations throughout the US rightnow, what can you tell us about
that? So we have seen atwenty five percent decrease in the amount of
blood we have on our shelves justin the last few weeks, since early
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October, since early August, andthat reduction puts so much at risk for
families who need blood and individual whoneed blood all across the country. So
there is a desperate need to makesure that people make donations, that they
make those appointments and keep those appointmentsto make sure we have a safe and
stable blood supply all across the country. As you mentioned, there is a
tie end to the climate crisis andthe disaster you've been seeing. Last year,
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we saw a twenty three percent increasein the number of canceled blood drives
through the severe weather and climate emergenciesall across the country. So that means
it's even more important that we getnew blood donors and stable blood donnors that
can come back time and time againand make sure people have the blood that
they need. Can you elaborate onthe American Red Crosses roll in blood donations
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and keeping our national blood supply atthe levels it needs to be stained at.
So the Medicanrand Cross provides almost fortypercent of the nation's blood supply,
and so that includes recruiting the donors, engaging the dotor, collecting the blood,
testing the blood and then providing itto hospitals both ahead of time every
single day, but also an urgentneeds when you need what they collect stad
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order where they need blood urgently fora surgery or an accident. And so
we have both the collection efforts,more than twelve hundred blood drives every single
day across the country happening, andwe also have hundreds of volunteers every day
ready to go to deliver blood tohospitals just in time to save lives.
You can learn more about the blooddonation work the American Red Cross does at
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red Cross Blood dot org. That'sRed Cross Blood dot org And Trevor,
this isn't the first time that we'veseen a shortage like this, right,
I remember seeing something similar happening duringthe pandemic because of the logistical issues caused
by COVID nineteen making it hard forpeople to donate and making it difficult to
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put on those different blood drives thatwe constantly see throughout the country, especially
at the onset of the pandemic wherepeople were rightfully so cautious to come into
closed facilities and we're learning how tolive in in a pandemic environment. We
saw a drastic reduction in the numberof people that came forward. And you
know, the American public always respectseems to respond to urgent cries for help,
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and we're trusting that the same willhappen today with a surgeon need for
blood. We saw that happening backduring the pandemic. We saw our numbers
go back up. We're hoping thatthey'll respond possibly here today as well.
I'm Ryan Gorman, joined by TrevorRiggan, President of Humanitarian Services at the
American Red Cross. You can learnmore at red Cross dot org. So
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before we dive into the work theAmerican Red Cross does with relief services following
natural disasters, can you give usa broad overview of the mission of the
American Red Cross and in all thatyour organization does on a day to day
basis, because it encompasses a widerange of different programs and services, so
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I can give the broad pictures.So obviously, we have our work to
keep a forty percent of the nation'sblood supply safe and available for people that
need it. We also have somethingwe call training services, and that's providing
life saving training to millions of peopleevery year. First Day CPR. That's
a huge part of the Red Crossmission. Our disaster relief services. We
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respond to nearly sixty thousand disasters ayear. The majority of those are actually
house fires, So we have volunteerson standby twenty four to seven a days,
responding to almost two hundred disasters everysingle day, all across the countries,
all across the country. We haveour work with the military. We
provide frontline support to both active dutymilitary and their families back at home,
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making sure they can get emergency communicationsback and forth the loved ones, but
also providing supports of veterans and woundedwarriors and hospitals and communities all across the
country. And then our work toengage volunteers, so we provide an outlet
to the people who want to give, who want to serve. We have
tens of thousands of volunteers every yearwho step forward to serve in each of
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those lines of service and make surethe communities get the help they need when
crisis happen. So September is NationalPreparedness Month, and we have seen a
number of major disasters just in thepast couple of months, let alone in
twenty twenty three. Tell us moreabout the relief services you provide. So
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the Red Cross responds to every disasterthat happens, and the range is incredible,
and the frequency is what's most troubling. Recently, just in the last
ten years, we've seen in Dublinand the number of climate driven disasters the
American recross responding to. And inthe first half of twenty twenty three,
the United States actually saw a recordtwenty three different billion dollars disasters, disasters
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that cause more than a billion dollarsin insured loss. And this includes atmospheric
rivers in California, deadly tornadoes inSouth and Midwest, the extreme heat effects
we've seen in almost every community acrossthe country. And even now we're preparing
for more. We still have overtwo thousand volunteers and staff and communities all
across the country responding to the deadlywildfires in Hawaii, the effects of the
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hurricane of Florida, Georgia, theCarolinas, the once in a hundred year
flood in Vermont. The need isconstant. The need is constant. Disasters
have become a true chronic issue anda true humanitarian crisis in our country.
Our range of services range from makingsure that shelters are open, that people
have a safe place to go tomeals to eat services those shelters, We
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provide health and mental health support tothose families. We also provide casework services
and long term recovery supports the familiesto make sure they have a passed forward
in that incredibly complex and long journeyto get back to where they started.
The response. Depending on the disasteritself, does that change at all.
If you're dealing with let's say,the deadly and devastating wildfires in Maui can
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here to our hurricane in the southeasternportion of the United States, it does.
Our service can be very customized basedon the disaster and based on the
impact that communities are facing. Sofatalities are a common thread on many of
these devastating climate events, and wetreat fatalities very differently. We have very
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highly trained teams that do community support. We set up centers where families can
come who are looking for the lovedones, where we can connect them with
services and government agencies to help themnavigate the complex process of how to identify
if their lovel one is lost ornot. We have different levels of financial
assistance and services for those families mentalhealth support to help them move through that
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process, which is very different thanthe immediacy of an evacuation, where really
our focuses on sheltering and making surepeople have a safe place to go in
a place to start to build arecovery from How much of a strain has
been put on your organization the AmericanRed Cross the past couple of years,
because I know, the pandemic wasan extremely busy time. There were all
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kinds of different issues there, andthen there was also a period where it
was tough for people to donate becauseof the financial situation they were dealing with
in this country. Now we havea year where we're seeing all of these
different natural disasters. It just seemslike it's one thing on top of another.
It has been an incredibly challenging years, and we have been really we're
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racing to both adapt our mission andgrow our capacity to take that on.
So every single day we are adaptinghow we serve, creating more services and
tools, really focused right now onhaving equa moore response, being able to
better identify communities that need us themost so the help can get to them
first. We're using a lot oftechnology and data analysis, even artificial intelligence
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to help us better understand how toserve those that need us. We're also
working very quickly to grow our capacity. All of those needs you just spoke
to really are about this. Redcrossneeds to be stronger. We need to
have volunteers in the communities that needus the most. We need to have
the local partners that are connected tous, but before and after disaster strikes,
and then we need more employees,which we're adding to our workforce every
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single day to make sure the RedCross can be there for what has become
just an acceleration of events. I'mRyan Gorman, joined by Trevor Riggan,
President of Humanitarian Services at the AmericanRed Cross. You can learn more at
Redcross dot org. Again, that'sRedcross dot org. So obviously, in
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order to accomplish everything you do,and we spend some time covering the wide
range of services and programs you provide, you need a lot of different things
to make that happen, including volunteers. So let's start there. What are
some different ways that people can volunteerto help the American Red Cross. So
it's incredibly easy. You can goto Redcross dot org and sign up to
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be a volunteer today. You cancome with training. Say you're a nurse
and you want to serve with yourlicensure, we have ways to plug in
and mental health experts, logisticians,I experts. We need everyone who brings
those skills to the table. Butwe'll also train you in skills if you
don't have them to live you apart of whether it's responding to a local
house fire, being a part ofwork with the military, or responding disasters
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all over the country even around theworld. And so you get to right
across that org sign up today andjust start that process of be a humanitarian
response worker. And then donations ofcourse across a lot of money to do
what you're doing to help all ofthese different families across the country in these
different difficult situations. Two things here. First of all, can you give
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us a sense as to how familiesspecifically are being impacted in some of these
different areas that you've been to andhave viewed for yourself. And then when
someone donates to the American Red Cross, where exactly is that money going,
how is it helping? So onthe community side, the impact unfortunately is
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just such a heavier toll on frontlinecommunities, communities that are both on the
front lines of the climate crisis.These are families that are pacing repetitive loss
disaster after disaster. You know,last year, I was on a hurricane
response and I met a woman wholost her home three times, three times
of fifteen years. She had movedeach time to avoid a disaster, thinking
she was safer and each time andthe disaster followed her, and that just
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loss of resilience each and every time. That same family was also on the
front line of other chronic social issueslike health, hunger, and housing,
and so at the intersection of those, it's just devastating loss. And so
we are really focused on how dowe expand our services and build readiness in
those communities, making sure they haveimmediate help but also a pass to long
term recovery. And that's why it'sso critical that we raise the money and
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resources we need to meet that missionbecause it's growing every single year. In
fact, we expect to spend onebillion dollars over the next few years to
make sure we have the capacity thatwe've expanded these services and families like I
just described get the help they need. And when you donate to the Red
Cross, ninety cents on every dollaris spent making sure families and communities get
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their resources they need, whether it'sa disaster services, our work with the
military, or even our work withBioMed. And so when you make that
the donation, know that we arespending every single dollar we can to help
those in need, programming it inthe most efficient and effective way possible while
also leveraging partners. We bring hundredsof partners to the table to make sure
we're also leveraging their skill sets andtheir resources so there's not duplication, so
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that every resource we have is maximized, because in the midst of this crisis,
we need everyone to be at thetable. And one thing I want
to point out, as someone whohas covered for iHeart Radio countless hurricanes in
recent years, a lot of timesthe media attention, the national attention to
the places that were hit by ahurricane, whether it's the Panhandle in Florida
(13:03):
or the Fort Myers area after HurricaneIan, that attention fades, but the
need remains. And I know theAmerican Red Cross year they are on the
grounds helping these families long after thestorm has passed or the wildfire has passed.
Correct, That's exactly right, andthat long after the cameras disappear,
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the need actually increases. Those families. We start to see families who thought
they had resources but quickly burned throughthose You can imagine weeks in a hotel
at weeks of sleeping on friends andfamilies couches and eating out because your home
has been destroyed. Trying to workthrough the complex issues of insurance and government
programs takes time, and we seethose needs start to bubble up weeks after
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the disaster happens, and that's wherethe value of our casework and are really
person to persons service that we providecan make all the difference. And so
The Cross is committed to being there, to being a part of community's recovery
every single day, and we needthis support to make sure we can do
it not just at the pace we'redoing it today, but the pace we
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know we're going to see tomorrow,which is going to be bigger and faster
than we've ever seen. And again, everyone can learn more first of all
about the blood donation shortage and theneed for that at Redcross Blood dot org.
Specifically red Cross Blood dot Org andIf you want to learn more about
the relief services provided by the AmericanRed Cross and everything else they do,
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including all the different ways you canhelp, from volunteering to donating, go
to Redcross dot org Again Redcross dotorg. Trevor Riggan, president of Humanitarian
Services at the American Red Cross,with us here on iHeart Radio Communities.
Trevor, want to thank you somuch for all the tremendous work you're doing
and for coming on the show.We appreciate it. Thank you so much,
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I really appreciate it. All Right, Now, I'm Ryan Gorman here
on Ihear Radio Communities, and nowI'm going to bring in our next guest.
I'm joined by the Acting Administrator fromthe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and
Carlson for Child Passenger Safety Week.And thank you so much for taking a
few minutes to come on the showto talk about this really important issue.
And let me start with the latestdata on just how dangerous it is for
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parents to secure their kids in improperlyinstalled car seats. This is one of
those things where maybe you think youhaven't done right. It looks right,
but perhaps it's not installed exactly howit's supposed to be. I'm sure all
parents listening right now want to makesure when they're traveling with their children they're
protected as much as humanly possible.So what do the numbers tell us?
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Sure, let me just start withhow many children die and traffic crashes every
year. This is based on twentytwenty one data, So one one eighty
four children who died, and abig percentage of those kids are either not
in cars at all or are incar seats that are not properly installed.
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But let me flip that and tellyou how just how safe it is if
your child is in the appropriate carseat and the car seat is installed appropriately.
So we see a reduction and therisk of an infant dying in a
car crash of seventy one percent ifthey're in a properly instant car seat,
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and it's all about fifty four percentfor toddlers. So it's really really important
to make sure not only that youhave a car seat, but that it's
installed correctly. What are some ofthe things that parents should keep in mind
when first of all, purchasing acar seat. Sure, so one thing
to do is to go to NITAhas a website NSA dot gov slash the
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right Seat, and there are lotsof there's lots of really good information about
a couple of different things. Oneis what is the right seat for the
child's age, age, weight,and height. That makes a big difference.
Another thing is you want to makesure that the car seat is compliant.
What that means is that it's certifiedto MISS is what're called FMBS.
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It's a safety standard and it getstested to make sure that it's safe.
And then the other thing you wantto do is make sure the seat is
installed correctly. And that's where thisweek is especially important, and our website
again at NITZA dot gov slash theright Seat can let you know where to
go find a location where you canget your car seats checked out. And
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when it comes to making sure carseats are installed properly, what are some
general tips that you can provide toparents listening right now so maybe at some
point soon they can go out totheir vehicles, spend a little time with
the car seat, take a secondlook, double check everything, and make
sure that the car seat that theyhave is installed the right way so their
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child is as safe as possible whenthey're riding in that vehicle. Sure two
things. Obviously, follow the instructions. It's not as intuitive if you think
it's going to be, especially forthe rear facing seats where they really need
to be anchored in. So ifyour car seat is swishing around in the
back seat, that's a sign thatit's not anchored in improperly. It's got
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to be really thirty sort of steadilyheld. So that's the two tips I've
give you. Follow the manufacturer's instructionsand make sure that it feels really like
it's really anchored into the seat,because if it's improperly installed, as we've
already talked about, children are alot higher risktrey or injury, even death,
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and there are a lot of carseats that aren't properly installed across the
country. That's right, and weestimate that it's about half and again especially
problematic for those rear facing seats thatreally need to be anchored in closely.
So you know, it's really reallyimportant that you get it in and that
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you get it in so that it'sinstalled correctly. You can check again on
our website, can check with citiesand counties. It's there are a lot
of certified experts around the country,who can help make sure if you're if
you have any doubt about whether thatseat is really anchored in In terms of
how far we've come with child safety, whether it's the safety of car seats,
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the safety of cars, what havewe seen in terms of the long
term trend So the long term trendsare really encouraging. I mean that's in
part because so I'm old enough sothat we didn't even wear seatbelts, let
alone have car seats. If youlook at some really old ones, they
are like little hammocks that would hangin the back. They did nothing to
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protect a child. So both foralland this is our data about fatalities generally,
we've just seen a huge decline andand how many people die per the
numbers of miles driven what we callthat the rate of fatalities that used to
be have around three or four perone hundred million miles, it's now around
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a little over one. So that'sjust a huge decline and a lot of
that safety has benefited kids. There'sother things in the vehicles that make them
a lot safer. So the structureof the vehicle. We have something called
electronic stability control, so they don'troll over as easily at courts. Airbags
and seat belts, that's really doa lot to protect adults and older teens,
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etc. So there's tons of safetyimprovement, but one of the biggest
ones is child safety seats as longas the properly inspelled. I'm Ryan Gorman
here on iHeart Radio Communities joined bythe National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations Acting Administrator
and Carlson to discuss child passenger safetyas this is Child Passenger Safety Week.
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One issue that comes up a lotduring the summer months, and it did
yet again over the past few months. Hot cars and kids in hot cars.
A number of steps have been takenin recent years to help address that
tragic issue because unfortunately there are alwaysa number of fatalities associated with that every
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year. Yeah, the place youreally need to worry about it is obviously
in hot climates. You already mentionedthe summer, but also the hotter the
climate. The more we see kidsdying in cars and so places like Florida
and Texas and California, you reallyneed to be vigilant. So we run
campaigns reminding people to check, alwayscheck. Here's probably the biggest risk factor
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for children dying in hot cars.It's when you change the caregiver. So
it might be that dad takes thechild to childcare every morning and one day
mom does it and Mom forgets,or grandma, grandpa, or the babysitter,
So just really being vigilant and constantlyreminding. Another thing is don't leave
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your child in a car seat torun an errand to run in for fifteen
minutes. It is striking how hotcars getting how quickly a child's body temperature
will increase. It's really dramatic,way higher than you ever think it's going
to be. The interior of acar can get up to say one hundred
twenty twenty five degrees, even whenthe outside air temperature is lower. So
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don't leave your child unattended in acar. And then the final one is
if you're not using your car,and it's part saying your driveway or garage
lock it, because sometimes kids getinto cars and they don't know it and
then they can't get out and theycan overheat that way too. So those
are the three different ways we seechildren getting trapped in hot cars. Sometimes
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a caregiver just forgets, and that'sthe biggest tragedy of all because nobody means
to leave their child in a hotcar. So again, if you're changing
care givers, if you're changing yourroutine in some way, really got to
remind yourself. You can even putyou know, we'll put a sticky on
your on your dashboard to remind yourself, turn around and check if a child's
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asleep or something. You know,it happens and you're sleep deprived and you're
off to work or you're off youknow, in a hurry, and you
just forget it can happen, andwe want to make sure that it doesn't.
Those are just really, really tragicdeaths. Can you give us a
sense of all the different kinds ofwork you do at the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration beyond things like Child PassengerSafety Week or some of the initiatives that
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you just mentioned tied to preventing kidsfrom being left in hot cars. Sure,
so we do rulemakings. We issuewhat are called federal motor vehicle safety
standards. Of course, one ofthe most obvious ones is for seat belts.
Those are mandatory, but not justhaving a seatbelt, but making sure
the seat belt works in a particularway and its protective as it can be
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rules for airbags, which are reallyreally protective strengthening the vehicle. And we
have a couple new proposed rules forautomatic emergency breaking, which would basically take
over from a driver who either doesn'tbreak hard enough or doesn't break at all,
and prevent a crash from happening,and can even avoid pedestrians even at
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night. So it's pretty remarkable technology. So that's a big part of what
we do. We also issue fueleconomy standards to make your car more fuel
efficient, to get you more mileagefor less gasoline, really really important.
We have a new proposal that hasjust come out that would really increase fuel
economy dramatically. We also administer abouteight hundred million dollars a year in grants
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to states who use that money tokeep you safer on the road. But
it's mostly for behavior. So thereare four behaviors that contribute to crashes way
too frequently. One is failure towear a speedboats. Seems really obvious,
but half of all fatalities are amongpeople who are not wearing the sheetbelt.
That's such an easy way to protectyourself impair driving. I'm afraid we've gotten
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way better about people not getting behindthe wheel and driving drunk. But we're
not there yet, and there's stilltoo many people that get behind the wheel.
Don't do it a designated driver,take a ride share, don't get
behind the wheel when you're drinking.A third is distracted driving, and this
one's a real problem and it's onthe increase. Why because everybody's got their
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cell phones and everybody thinks, oh, I need to look at this text
immediately, even though that text canwait, and it can be the difference
between life or death. Crash ornot. Taking your eyes off the road
and looking at your phone is abad idea. And the final one is
speeding. So everybody speeds. Weknow that. We survey people. Lots
of people think speeding isn't dangerous.It's dangerous, and not just its speeds
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that are saying one hundred miles anhour on the freeways obviously dangerous. But
if you're going ten miles over thelimit and you're on a residential roadway and
you hit a pedestrian, if youwere going ten miles lower, you might
be able to stop, or youmight not injure them as father even prevent
them from dying. So we doa lot to try to get drivers to
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reduce those behaviors that can really causeproblems. And then finally, we recall
vehicles that are unsafe, and wehave you can check again on the it's
a website. You can go checkand see whether your vehicle is under recall,
and if it is, the manufactureris required to provide a remedy for
three. You don't have to payfor it. You just got to get
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your vehicle in to get it repaired. Final question for you, I've read
a number of reports that in postpandemic America we've seen some significant issues on
the roads in terms of crashes andfatalities. We talked earlier about the trend
line when it comes to child passengersafety, but overall crashes fatalities on Americas
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roads, what are we seeing inrecent years. That's a great question.
And we thought that when we're alot of people staying home during the pandemic,
that we'd see a reduction fatalities.We saw the opposite. Fatalities went
up in twenty twenty one. Theyare starting to come down, but we're
still seeing well over forty thousand peopledying every single year on our roadways,
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and we did see an increase insome of those behaviors I just talked about
impair driving, speeding, sometimes feedingwhile impaired, really really bad thing to
do, driving without a seat belt. We saw seat belt rates decline in
some areas. We didn't see anincrease in crashes. What we saw is
an increase in fatal crashes. Andthat's because of these dangerous behaviors that we're
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really really contributing to more people dyingon our roadway. But let me just
say one of the things, evenbefore the pandemic, too many people are
dying on our roadways. And that'swhy I at the US Department of Transportation,
we've adopted something called a National RoadwaysSafety Strategy, which is designed basically
these every tool we have to tryto drive down fatalities. You shouldn't risk
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your life to go to the grocerystore or to go to work, or
to go visit somebody and you know, driving on a highway. And so
we're really trying to do everything wecan, everything from redesigning roadways, reducing
speeds, using speed safety cameras,you know, engaging in communications campaigns to
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get people to wear their seatbelts,to drive sober. You might recognize some
of that. Click at our ticket, drive sober, get pulled over.
These are all MITSA ads that werun, so we're really working to try
to drive traffic fatalities down, trafficinjuries down, traffic crashes overall down.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations Acting Administratorand Carlson with us to discuss child passenger
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safety and a whole lot more.As this week is Child Passenger Safety Week,
you can learn more about all thework this agency does at NHTSA dot
gov. That's NHTSA dot Gov.I want to thank you so much for
taking a few minutes to come onthe show and share all of that with
us. We really appreciate it.Say thank you, Ryan, I really
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appreciate the opportunity to get to sharethat information. Of course, all right,
that's going to do it for thisedition of iHeartRadio Communities. As we
wrap things up, I want tooffer a big thanks to all of our
guests and of course to all ofyou for listening. If you want to
hear previous episodes of this show,we're on your iHeartRadio app. Just search
for iHeartRadio Communities. I'm your host, Ryan Gorman. We'll talk to you
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