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  • No back-up camera on your car? Add one

    The NHTSA estimates that more than 200 people and 15,000 injuries occur annually because of backing-up crashes, with many of the fatalities occurring to children younger than 5.

  • How a small White House agency stalls life-saving regulations

    The little-known Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs can delay, rewrite or kill rules mandated by Congress, and as the case of requiring rearview cameras on cars shows, it often uses that power.

  • In A Tight Spot, Abducted Family Struggled For Freedom — And Hope

    Janette Fennell tells the terrifying story that led to her dedicated career in child vehicle safety. She was kidnapped, locked in the trunk of her vehicle with her husband, driven out to the middle of nowhere and left to die, all the while not knowing what had happened to their infant son who had been in the vehicle with them...

  • Ohio bill would protect people from legal trouble for breaking into car to save a child or a pet

    A new bill could protect Ohioans from legal trouble if they break into a car to save a child or a pet. Senators Jim Hughes and Frank LaRose are sponsoring Senate Bill 215, which states a person would be granted immunity from civil liability for any damage resulting from the forcible entry of a motor vehicle for the purpose of removing a minor or an animal from the vehicle because the minor or the animal is in imminent danger of suffering harm.

  • Child seat sounds off when child is left in car

    It’s a headline seen too often in warm months: A small child, inadvertently left behind in a car, dies of heat stroke. On Sept. 23 the victim was an 8-month-old boy in Macedonia, Ohio.

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