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Law Makers Push for Safety Upgrades Will Require Rearview Cameras to Protect Children
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and safety advocates called for new auto safety upgrades that would require rearview cameras for drivers and power windows that automatically reverse as a way to protect children around vehicles.
"None of us wants to — as we each have done — meet with another family who has lost a child, in what is clearly a preventable death," said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., who outlined legislation that would force automakers to provide the improvements.
Kids and Cars, a Kansas-based safety group supporting the bill, estimated that about two children are killed and 48 injured every week because of back-over accidents. Family members are typically behind the wheel, they said.
NHTSA has estimated that back-over accidents led to 183 deaths annually and about 7,400 injuries.
"Such technology does show promise, though more research and development could help them better identify objects, especially at night and in inclement weather," said Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
Others have stressed the importance of walking around the vehicle before moving it. But some parents whose children have been injured or killed in backovers said a simple check is not always the best prevention.
Auriemma‘s young daughter, Kate, was seriously injured after she accidentally backed over her in May 2005. Auriemma said moments before the accident, she had looked behind her car "but my daughter slipped out of the house in a second and behind my vehicle before I knew it."
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