Incidents by Category
Children
struck by vehicles backing up (backover)
Children
left alone (or get in on their own) in a hot vehicle (hyperthermia)
Children
who inadvertently set a vehicle into motion
Children
struck by a vehicle moving forward in driveway or parking lot (frontover)
Children
trapped in power windows
Children
trapped in a vehicle trunk (trunk entrapment)
Children
taken during the course of a vehicle theft
Children
who start a fire inside a vehicle
Children
abducted while left in a vehicle
Miscellaneous
incidents that occur on private property involving children and vehicles
Recent Articles
After Losing Her Daughter, West Boca Mom on Mission to Make Safety Sensors Standard
South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 26, 2006
After tragedy
strikes, how in the world do you go on? Adriann Raschdorf and Bill Nelson,
a brave mom and dad from Long Island, join us here in the studio. They lost
their little boy, Alec, but healed their family's spirit by becoming activists.
To learn more about the work Alec's family is doing to protect children
from automobile injuries, visit AlecsPlayground.com
and founder Janette Fennell's organization, KidsAndCars.org ; and The
Hospice Care Network (LI, NY), where the family received bereavement
counseling.
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May
5, 2004 |
As summer approaches and temperatures soar across the country,
parents and caregivers need to be vigilant in preventing heat-related
deaths of children trapped or accidentally left in vehicles.
(click
here for full article): |
MORE
ON POWER ACCESSORIES
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| NHTSA's
National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) completed a study of
data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) National Electronic
Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) on cases involving injuries associated
with motor vehicle power windows. (data compiled from the period October
1, 1993 through September 30, 1994) NEISS data on persons treated in hospital
emergency rooms for these injuries were studied to determine the action
or activity involved in producing the injury, the type of injury sustained
and its severity, the part of the body most often injured, and the age
of the person injured. |
