Safety Groups Lament Gaps in Projected Auto Fatalities.

AScribe Law News Service, April, 2005

Byline: KIDS 'N CARS

LEAWOOD, Kan., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's release of projected 2004 highway injuries and fatalities excludes incidents involving children who have been backed over in driveways and parking lots, died of hyperthermia in hot cars, or been injured or killed in power window incidents. In other words, children killed in "nontraffic, noncrash" events, of which there were at least 165 fatalities last year, are not being included in the report according to the nonprofit child safety advocacy group, Kids And Cars. (www.KidsAndCars.org)

"These children are invisible in these reports because the federal government doesn't count incidents that happen in driveways and parking lots," said Janette Fennell, Founder and President of...

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