Holiday Travel and Safety TipsBy Remar Sutton, DCU StreetWise Spokesperson
The weeks from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day mark the holiday season for many traditions and cultures in the United States. Each year millions of individuals and families take to road, rail and air to visit families and friends. Homes are decorated and great feasts prepared. It's a time everyone looks forward. But all too often, what should be a time of joy and relaxation becomes a time with just as much stress and hassle, or so much worse, a time of injury or tragedy. For example, traffic safety predictions alert us to the potential for injury and death in traffic accidents. Emergency rooms annually treat about 11,000 persons for accidents and fires related to holiday lights and decorations, such as Christmas trees.
With a little preparation and review of travel and safety tips, however, you can lower the holiday hassle factor for your family as well as help prevent accidents. Use this Remar's Report as a brief handbook that leads you to selected Internet resources offering sound information on a variety of holiday travel and safety issues.
For starters, here is a summary of tips from experts, followed by the resources where you can read about the ideas in full.
At little timely preparation can make traveling with children by air or by car more enjoyable.
Electric holiday lights, lighted candles, fires in the fireplace, decorated trees, trimmings of ribbon and paper certainly lend a holiday air to homes. But each year substandard or worn lighting, overloaded wiring, unattended candles and fires, flammable materials and failing to follow safety rules result in damage to homes as well as personal injuries and death. Keep your holiday home healthy and happy by taking a moment to review safety precautions.
From everyone's favorite holiday bird-the turkey-through gifts of holiday food and right down to snacks for New Year's Day bowl games, the information from these sites will help you insure that the goodies stay wholesome.
Don't the dog Fido and cat Fluff deserve to have a little fun, too? Not to mention Jimmy the Gerbil and Pete the Parakeet? Here's a tip to keep them safe and happy (even if they have to stay home).
So, what do you think?
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Remar Sutton
updated December 2004
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