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Back-over accidents not uncommon nationally
The accident that left a 3-year-old boy dead after his grandfather unwittingly backed over him is similar to ones that happen across the nation every week.
Change of dad’s routine led to baby’s death in car
“There’s nothing worse than the death of a child, but when a parent — the person who loves them most — is responsible, that’s the only thing that could be worse.”
Emergency Trunk-Release Lever Saves Lives
For the 2002 model year, all cars were required to feature a standard glow-in-the-dark trunk-release lever, which opens the compartment from the inside in the event of an emergency. Since the mandate, no children have died in the trunk of a car equipped with the lever, but accidental trunk entrapment in older cars has killed at least 22 children since 2002, according to safety watchdog and advocacy group Kids and Car Safety.
Know Your Car’s Blind Spot Around Kids
The recent deaths of two toddlers in the Kansas City area, struck by vehicles backing up in separate incidents, has many people wondering how something so tragic could have happened.
Organization demonstrates the danger of vehicle blind spots
At a stretch of painted asphalt in a parking lot near the Old Navy store near 119th Street and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park, people in the driver’s seat of a parked car Saturday learned that the blind spots they first estimated to be 6 to 8 feet in fact approached 20 feet or more.
