Personal Injury Law

Keeping Kids Safe in Non-Traffic Auto Accidents

By Eddie Farah

President Bush today signed the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act.

It attempts to prevent, albeit too slowly, many of the accidents we report about here that happen in a family's driveway - that is accidents where a child is run over because a relative can't see around their SUV.

Cameron was a two-year-old who was killed by his father in the driveway five years ago. 230 children were killed in 2007 in these non-traffic auto accidents.

Since then his family and others who've had the same experience, have worked to have the act passed.

It will require auto manufacturers to do about four things.

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).