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Trunk Entrapment - Latest News
This regulatory 'reform' could roll back car safety, cost American lives
My story had a happy ending, but it could have turned out differently. I was surprised that no one tracked statistics, so I gathered my own. I found more than 1,000 victims of trunk entrapment over several decades, including more than 300 deaths and dozens of children who entered the trunk innocently, became trapped and died. Just as cases of children suffocating in refrigerators in the 1950s led to new safety standards, trunk entrapment called out for a solution. The answer was simple: a small, two-inch glow-in-the-dark plastic internal trunk release. If there had been a release in my trunk, we could have jumped out at any stop light and fled to safety.
Kidnap Victim Describes Escape from Trunk of Moving Car
KidsAndCars.org made sure that all vehicles 2002 & newer have a trunk release! Thank goodness it saved this woman's life!
10 Fascinating But Forgotten Women From American History
American history is jam-packed with women who’ve overcome centuries of discrimination and steered the country’s culture and politics. We generally remember people like Harriet Tubman, Sacagawea, Jackie Kennedy, and Rosa Parks . . . in other words, the legends.
THERE'S AN ESCAPE RELEASE IN CAR TRUNKS DUE TO ONE WOMAN KIDNAPPED
Almost 20 years ago, Fennell and her husband Greig were kidnapped from their garage, in the trunk of their own car.
There’s an Escape Release in Car Trunks Due to One Woman Kidnapped and Locked in Hers
Almost 20 years ago, Fennell and her husband Greig were kidnapped from their garage, in the trunk of their own car. Left alone, still trapped, in a dark park in the south of San Francisco, they escaped. In the wake of that crime, Fennell has been working to make sure that no one dies trapped in a car and, in the process, has changed the way people in America drive.
