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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.
Children shut in car trunk were in no danger, grandmother says
A St. Louis woman is accused of putting her 10-year-old daughter and two of her daughter’s friends in the trunk of a moving car.
Emergency Trunk-Release Lever Saves Lives
For the 2002 model year, all cars were required to feature a standard glow-in-the-dark trunk-release lever, which opens the compartment from the inside in the event of an emergency. Since the mandate, no children have died in the trunk of a car equipped with the lever, but accidental trunk entrapment in older cars has killed at least 22 children since 2002, according to safety watchdog and advocacy group Kids and Car Safety.