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Swimming Pool Safety:

 This is an excerpt from one of the recent episodes of ‘Do I Need a Lawyer?’ hosted by: Gary Martin Hays.

In this segment, please allow me to talk about a non-profit my wife and I started back in 2008 called Keep Georgia Safe.
The mission for Keep Georgia Safe is to provide safety education and crime prevention training to Georgia’s families.
Please check out our website - KeepGeorgiaSafe.org for all kinds of safety information that you can use to help protect your families and yourself.
Today, let’s talk about swimming pool safety.
Here are some important statistics:
* According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10 people die EVERY DAY from drowning accidents - and this percentage obviously spikes much higher during the summer months. 
* 20% of those deaths are children who are 14 years or younger. 
* For every child who dies from drowning, 4 others will be treated in hospital emergency rooms 
* Near drowning can lead to a permanent brain injury.  More than 50% of the people who are admitted to emergency rooms due to drowning related injuries each year are hospitalized or placed in rehabilitative facilities.
* Children UNDER the age of 4 have the highest drowning rate.
* We assume that these drowning deaths only occur at a large swimming pool or spa.  That is not the case.  Children playing in the small portable pools are also at a high risk. In the last 10 years, there have been over 200 drownings in these small pools.
* 85% of all drowning fatalities to young children under the age of five occur at a residential pool.
* And African American children are at 10 times the risk of drowning than Caucasian children.

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Learn more: http://www.garymartinhays.com or call 770-934-8000
This is an excerpt from one of the recent episodes of ‘Do I Need a Lawyer?’ hosted by: Gary Martin Hays.

If you have a question you would like for me to answer, or if you would like to speak with me regarding a potential claim, please pick up the phone and give us a call right now.

(770) 934-8000.

The number is on the screen - and so is my email address - Gary@garymartinhays.com.

My firm specializes in personal injury and wrongful death claims.

In fact, we have helped over 33,000 families in Georgia and throughout the southeast.

My law firm is here to help when tragedy strikes.

But one thing I’d like to do is try to prevent these horrible accidents from ever occurring.

So please allow me a few minutes to talk about an important issue that effects everyone that owns and operates a vehicle.

I want to cover some critical factors regarding tire safety.

In the US, we do not have any law that prevents anyone from selling a tire because of its age.

Some states have laws that require drivers to have their tires examined to check the tread wire.\, but no state checks a tire to see how old it is.

And this is why it’s important: A tire has a life of approximately six (6) years.

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