As hurricane season devastates the country, many desperate residents have found themselves facing danger in the place they hoped would take them to safety: their cars.
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How to Escape Your Car if You're Stuck During a Flood or Storm
Drivers and their passengers are at risk to become stuck or stalled as water rises, and in some instances can be carried off by moving water or left unable to avoid collapsed trees or sections of road.Motorists should know how to escape their vehicles should the roads become too dangerous, Janette Fennell, founder and president of KidsAndCars.org, told InsideEdition.com.Unlocking backseat heatstroke deaths
Two summers ago, 2-year-old Leasia Carter of Belair-Edison died in the backseat of a Lincoln because her dad, who had been drinking on a Father’s Day celebration, had forgotten she was there. In February of this year, that man was sentenced to eight years in prison for what he confessed to be a “horrible mistake.” But what if he had been given a second chance? What if he’d gotten a reminder to check the back seat after he drove home? Surely, that would have increased the likelihood that his daughter would have survived that fateful day.
This regulatory 'reform' could roll back car safety, cost American lives
My story had a happy ending, but it could have turned out differently. I was surprised that no one tracked statistics, so I gathered my own. I found more than 1,000 victims of trunk entrapment over several decades, including more than 300 deaths and dozens of children who entered the trunk innocently, became trapped and died. Just as cases of children suffocating in refrigerators in the 1950s led to new safety standards, trunk entrapment called out for a solution. The answer was simple: a small, two-inch glow-in-the-dark plastic internal trunk release. If there had been a release in my trunk, we could have jumped out at any stop light and fled to safety.
BABY GIRL DIES IN CAR AS MOM WORKED ALL DAY — 911 CALL TELLS HEART-WRENCHING STORY
A 15-month-old baby girl died while strapped into her car seat in the backseat of her mother’s car while her mom worked all day. When the baby’s mother returned to the car at the end of her workday, she discovered the baby and by that time, it was too late. While the official cause of death was not immediately known, officials did say they believe the high temperature inside that car was a contributing factor to the death of the baby girl.
While Back-Up Cameras Help Drivers See Behind Vehicles, They Aren’t Foolproof
Back-up cameras help drivers to see things behind the bumper that we normally wouldn’t, but are we relying too heavily on them? By checking your rear and side view mirrors, you would hope to see something sitting in your driveway, especially if it’s a good 10 to 20 feet behind you. But did you know the blind spot behind your car is so big an entire busload of children could fit behind?
