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America’s Cars & Trucks are Getting Bigger and So Are Their Front Blind Zones. Children are Paying the Price

America's Cars & Trucks are Getting Bigger and So Are Their Front Blind Zones. Children are Paying the Price

Every year, many kids get hit and die when their parents can’t see them in their front blind zones. A senator wants to pass a law requiring safety features to prevent these accidents.

An estimated 744 children were killed after being hit by a forward-moving vehicle off of public roads from 2016 to 2020, mostly in driveways and parking lots. In the majority of deaths, the child was hit by an SUV or a pickup truck.

In a demonstration at the Consumer Reports Test Track in Connecticut, it took at least nine elementary school children sitting in a line for someone in the driver’s seat of four different SUVs and pickup trucks to see the top of a single child’s head.

via NBC News

Oct 26, 2022Dave Bean
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