Victorious4
Senior Community Member
Here's what I got in my email....
At the petition site it's only slightly better....
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Think your car is child-safe? Every year young children continue to die from vehicle-related accidents that could have been prevented by the auto industry.
Sign the petition urging car-makers to make vehicles safer for our kids!
When driving, we all try to take the greatest safety precautions with young kids. Yet since 2000, 723 children have died in non-traffic related incidents and most often, a parent or relative was the one behind the wheel.
This is an even greater tragedy knowing that the auto industry has the techology to prevent these accidents – but they refuse to make it a standard feature in the cars that most of us drive. Take action!
Safety features that detect a small child behind a car, and windows that auto-reverse to prevent power window deaths already exist, yet car-makers consider them "luxury" options – offering them only in high-end model vehicles.
But if the technology is available to make cars safer for kids, shouldn't every vehicle be equipped with it?
Now, Consumer's Union is working with members of Congress to pass bi-partisan legislation that will establish basic safety regulations and hold automakers accountable, ensuring safety devices like small-child rear-detection and auto-reversing windows become mandatory features in all new cars. Join them in action by signing the petition!
If you believe that every consumer deserves the best in car safety for kids, sign the petition urging your lawmakers to support this important bill.
Here's to protecting our children…Are you with me?
Lauren Alvarez,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team
At the petition site it's only slightly better....
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Since 2000, 723 children have died in non-traffic related incidents such as back-overs and window strangulation.
The overwhelmingly majority of these victims were one year olds and in 70% of these cases, a parent or close relative was behind the wheel.
But automakers could have prevented a great number of tragic accidents like these. Technology such small-child rear-detection and auto-reversing windows already exist -- but is only available in high-end vehicles.
Shouldn't every car be made with the latest child-safe technology, even if it's not a "luxury" model?
Consumer's Union is working with members of Congress to pass bi-partisan legislation that will establish basic safety regulations and hold automakers accountable, ensuring safety devices like small-child rear-detection and auto-reversing windows become mandatory features in all new cars.
After all, if automakers can prevent child deaths – shouldn't drivers be able to?
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