Florida Child Injury Law Blog » suffocate http://www.floridachildinjurylawblog.com Florida Child Injury Lawyer James W. Dodson Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:56:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dangers of Car Power Windows http://www.floridachildinjurylawblog.com/85/ http://www.floridachildinjurylawblog.com/85/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:42:00 +0000 James Dodson http://www.floridachildinjurylawblog.com/?p=85 Kids and Cars: Power Window ARS Technology Prevents Child Injury | Death KidsandCars.org, contesting recent data published by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, is urging the agency to revisit their findings and require that Automatic Reversing Systems (ARS) technology become standard on all automobiles sold in the U. S. to prevent senseless deaths and child injuries.

Janette Fennell, President of KidsandCars remarked, “This discrepancy of data is unacceptable; we’ve long known that millions of people are injured by power windows. 

The non-profit organization, dedicated to reducing injury or death to children in and around motor vehicles reports  the majority of power windows wield an upward force of 30-80 pounds. It takes only 22 pounds of force to suffocate or injure an infant. The ARS feature is a $6-per-window solution to prevent injuries and deaths. The technology is standard on most vehicles in Europe, including American cars sold there. However, the feature is on less than half of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler models in the U.S.

For more information, please visit KidsandCars.org

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