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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Raelyn Balfour column: We need more car regulation to keep kids safe
On the morning of March 30, 2007, I was positive that I had dropped off my son, Bryce, at his babysitter’s house. I did not learn until later that afternoon when the babysitter called that he was not with her. My son died after being left in my car all day. The high that day was only 66 degrees, but that was enough. He died, and was only 9 months old.
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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.
