Old, Used, Borrowed and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-Up

Old, Used, Borrowed, and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-Up aims to highlight the importance of child safety, encouraging parents and caregivers to recognize the risks of using car seats that are over eight years old, have been purchased from a thrift store or yard sale, have parts missing, or have no traceable recall information.  We want you to understand how crucial it is to keep your children safe by replacing unsafe seats, and we invite you to turn in your old safety seats for a reward throughout February.

To ensure the safety of our young children, Drive Safe Hampton Roads has partnered with Walmart, AAA Tidewater Virginia, Hoffman Beverage, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Huffman & Huffman, and Waste Management of Virginia, Inc. to host the Old, Used, Borrowed, and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-Up.

This legacy program began in the spring of 1989, joining forces with community partners to collect old, used and potentially unsafe child safety seats. There were 27 safety seats collected and crushed in the first Old, Used, Borrowed and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-up at what is now Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach.  Since the first Round-Up, over 19,047 seats have been removed from general circulation.