If you're carrying precious cargo in your vehicle, the Door County Public Health Department wants to help you keep them safe. The department offers car seat checkups on the fourth Monday afternoon and fourth Friday morning of every month with a certified child passenger safety technician checking things out. The National Digital Car Seat Check Form shows that 74 percent of car seats inspected last year were improperly installed or used. Teri Van Lieshout from Door County Public Health says there are a lot of items she looks for when she looks at a car seat.

The inspection also includes training on how to properly install your car seat and harness your children, especially if you consistently swap your equipment between vehicles. Van Lieshout says their inspection program was previously done by the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department, and there are efforts to get more people from the two agencies certified. According to AAA, more than four million children 11 and under were involved in car crashes between 2018 and 2022, causing more than 547,000 injuries.