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Reversing over (your) kids - 70% do it in SUV's

  • 22-01-2006 10:38PM
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    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/22/earlyshow/living/parenting/main526462.shtml
    From Jan. 1 to Oct. 21, 2002, there have been 349 backing-up incidents involving children, with 469 victims and 104 deaths. Over the past decade, 31.1 percent of auto deaths of children resulted from a car being backed over a child, said Janette Fennell, co-founder of the organization.

    Specifically, at least 53 children have died and 28 have been seriously injured so far this year by a car running over them. In contrast, 41 children died that way last year. In half of those cases, the driver was a parent or other relative and in 70 percent of those cases, the vehicle was an SUV.
    Judging by the stats 1 in 3 of the incidents involved more than one victim


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