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New rules over vehicle rear-view visibility delayed once again
Transportation Department has pushed back new regulations requiring that cars be sold with rear-view visibility to prevent back-over deaths and injuries to 2015.
Safety Experts Hope to Drive Home Message of Backover Dangers
School's out, and that means drivers need to be mindful that kids are out and about too. Dozens of kids are injured every week nationwide when they're hit by cars backing up.
It’s Not Child’s Play in a Driveway
As difficult as it might be, imagine running over a child in your vehicle. Disturbing, right? Now even harder, try to picture the child was your own, and this horrible incident occurred in your driveway at home. One word comes to mind: UNTHINKABLE, right? Wrong! Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare occurrence.
Cambria family seeking change
An area family recently lobbied federal lawmakers to make rear-view cameras a standard feature along with airbags and seat belts in all new vehicles.
Buckling to Auto Industry Pressure, Obama Delays Rule on Rearview Cameras in Cars
Parents of children killed in backover incidents and safety groups called on the Obama Administration to release a rear visibility rule for motor vehicles. Safety advocates were told that the rule would be issued in 2012, but it wasn’t. Well into 2013 — and it still hasn’t been issued.
