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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.
Wisconsin child care providers could be required to check in on parents
Advocates say the bill authored by Reps. Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton and Scott Krug, R-Nekoosa, could save lives, but to some daycare providers it “feels like overkill.”
Danger of leaving kids in cars
America Now news It's any parent's nightmare - a vehicle is stolen with children inside. It may sound unlikely, but it can and does happen in the blink of an eye.
