{"id":350118,"date":"2026-09-18T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350118\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:08:09","slug":"new-york-residents-can-get-a-free-car-seat-safety-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350118\/","title":{"rendered":"New York residents can get a free car seat safety inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; New York is providing<a href=\"https:\/\/trafficsafety.ny.gov\/search\/seat_checks_?page=0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/trafficsafety.ny.gov\/search\/seat_checks_?page=0\"> free car seat inspections across the state <\/a>as part of child passenger safety week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Certified safety technicians will inspect car seats for proper installation, size and expiration dates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If a technician deems an existing car seat unsafe, a free replacement seat will be provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An estimated 80% to 90% of car seats in New York are installed incorrectly, state officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI highly encourage parents and caregivers to take advantage of these free car seat checks. It\u2019s a quick, easy way to make sure you have the right seat and that it\u2019s installed correctly,\u201d Christian Jackstadt, acting commissioner of the state Department of Motor Vehicles, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year, technicians replaced more than 300 unsafe seats.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; New York is providing free car seat inspections across the state as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2700,11301,7717,9,11,10,49,51,50,1986,18053,1631],"class_list":["post-350118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car","tag-free","tag-inspection","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-safety","tag-seat","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}