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Missouri Safety Groups Sue Department of Transportation over Increasing Backover Accidents
The latest statistics reveal that more than 250 fatalities and over 18,000 injuries occur because of backover accidents. The sad part is that most of the victims are young children aged between 1-2 years. In most of these cases, the driver of the car is a close relative or parent of the victim.
The First Years True Fit IAlert Car Seat
If you are like me, my smart phone is not just a phone. It’s literally my brain. Constantly reminding me of appointments, errands and organizing my endless lists of to dos. So, it’s not surprising that someone finely created a system that will work with your smart phone to let you know if your car seat isn’t correct.
Why do more?
Regardless of how busy you are and how badly your day is going, nothing makes you feel smaller than standing within arms' length of a mother who lost her child, wanting only to reach over and take away her pain, knowing you never can. What hits you is their strength.
Dangerous blindspots: preventing 'backover' accidents
A toddler suffered fatal injuries Wednesday when a vehicle backed over him in front of a Normal Heights home.
An Untold Irony in NHTSA's Recent Rearview Camera Debacle
A little over a month ago, news outlets reported on a controversy involving the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The news reports captured most of the essential facts: In 2008, the US Congress passed the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act. The law directed NHTSA, among other things, to revise its safety standards to "expand the required field" of rearward vision. The practical effect of this part of the law would be to require rearview cameras or similar technologies be installed in every new car sold in the United States so that drivers would back over fewer children who are often too short to be seen through traditional rearview mirrors.
