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Increasing Number Of Children Killed in ‘Frontover’ Accidents
There is a growing concern involving blind zones and vehicles. As of May 8, 2017, there have been 16 children who have been killed in frontover accidents. That’s where a driver doesn’t see a child in front of their car and accidentally pulls forward, striking and killing the child. The growing number of accidents involve our growing fleet of large vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks. According to Kids and Cars, a safety organization which tracks these sorts of accidents, the number of fatalities in frontovers has gone from 24 between 1996 and 2000 to 358 between 2006 and 2010.
Kidnap Victim Describes Escape from Trunk of Moving Car
KidsAndCars.org made sure that all vehicles 2002 & newer have a trunk release! Thank goodness it saved this woman's life!
Mother warns parents after 9-month-old dies in 'hot car' on 66-degree-day
For Raelyn Balfour of Charlottesville, the idea of forgetting her baby in the backseat of a hot car was unthinkable. "I had heard of stories of this happening to other parents, and I'm like, 'That's an irresponsible parent, there's no way that you can do that,'" she said. "Until it happened to me." Balfour says other people considered her a great parent. And she was known for her attention to detail. While serving with the Army in Iraq, she was able to manage big-budget projects while accounting for every penny. But on March 30, 2007, she made a mistake she's had to live with ever since. "I still ask myself every day -- how could I leave him, how could I forget him?" Balfour said.
Carbon monoxide poses greater and greater risks
Few deaths inspire more sympathy than the insidious, highly preventable kinds that quietly took the lives of a Passaic mother and her two young children last January as they tried to stay warm inside a parked car while its engine kept running. Tragically, snow clogged the tailpipe as Sashalynn Rosa’s husband shoveled snow around them. In time, poisonous carbon monoxide leaked into the car, and the 23-year-old mom, her daughter Saniyah, 3, and son, Messiah, 1, all drifted off to sleep and perished.
Family Shares Hot Car Survival Story with Donna Terrell
Many of you remember the Judge Wade Naramore story in Hot Springs. An entire community was shaken when the judge forgot and left his son, Thomas, in a hot car. Thomas died that day. We know there are situations where people knowingly walk away and leave a child in a hot car, but Judge Naramore said, he forgot Thomas was there. Eric Styvusant knows what that is like. The same thing happened to him. He forgot, he got sidetracked and left his son Michael in the car on a hot day. It is a big mistake that can add up to a "life sentence" of guilt.
