Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters Launches New Messaging Service for Safety Recall Information

Consumers Now Able to Sign Up for Safety Seat and Tire Recall Information

Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters has announced recently that consumers will be able to get important safety updates about child seats and tire recalls automatically e-mailed or sent to their PDA devices as part of a new federal government notification service.

The introduction of this new messaging system is expected to help consumers to research information when a product is found to be defective and respond accordingly to address the problem.

“Signing up for this service is one of the easiest things you can do to help protect yourself and the lives of your children,” said Secretary Peters. “We can’t afford to let safety get lost in the mail.”

The Secretary noted that the new system focuses on safety seat and tire recall information because fewer consumers have historically responded to these important safety updates. For example, less than one-third of affected consumers respond to the tire recalls, while less than half of affected consumers respond to child seat recalls.

“When a product is defective, we want to do everything to get those unsafe products off the market,” said National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Deputy Administrator James F. Ports, Jr.