This has been posted on this site a few times.And this is a very serious problem..and the technology is out there at a very affordable price..Atwec technologies is one of the most caring companies out there that are trying to solve this problem..And I think they are way ahead of all other companies.And the Ceo and all of the mgt Is really dedicated to saving childrens lives..check out their website and you will see just what I mean..

I'm very pleased that this type of information is being given to parents and drivers alike. I have been speaking to parents, driver education students, and numerous other groups of the danger of blind zones and children around vechiles. Beacuse I know of the dangers. As my 14 month old daughter, Madison was killed in a backover at her local daycare. I see many people saying the easyiest fix is to look behind your vechile before getting in. Yes, it is very effective to look behind your vechile. It is a very good safety measure. But, in the time you get into your vechile,is when a child will walk behind your vechile. As we all know you cannot see behind the vechile. As i have said before, "It doesn't matter how good of a parent you are, if you can't see behind your vechile dangerous things can happen." The combination of existing technologies and education becoming standard will save THOUSANDS of lives. Please join as a supporter of this most nessacary bill, to stop the preventable deaths of children. Beacuse it could be your child, neice, nephew or grandchild that is caught in the blindzone. Thank you MSNBC for allowing parents to be educated and keeping children safe.

This is a serious problem here and too many children have died because of drivers backing up over them. School bus drivers forgetting to check the bus for sleeping children in the back who die from heat exhaustion. I have 3 kids of my own and installed a product from ATWEC Technologies, installed myself in 20 minutes and it works great. Check out their website: ATWEC.COM. They also have hundreds of distributors who sell and install their products. Check them out.

There is alot of technology that is expensive and many families can't afford, I found a $20 solution that is not prefect but it helps and was tested by Consumer Report and Parenting Magazine. Rear View Safety Lens www.rearlens.com.

"Did it ever occur to any of you Einsteins that drivers that know what they are doing check the back of their car before getting into it, and the area around the car? It takes about 1 second."

It takes about one second for the situation to change behind a car also! Even if you have checked behind your vehicle a child can enter the blind zone behind the vehicle as you momentarily face forward when sitting down in the driver's seat.

DRIVERS NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT IS BEHIND THEIR VEHICLE WHEN THEY ARE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT AND MAKING THE DECISION AS TO WHETHER IT IS SAFE TO REVERSE OR NOT.

Bad drivers and bad parents? A bad driver and bad parent would put their vehicle into reverse assuming there is nothing behind the vehicle because that was the case a few moments ago.

BH I think that it's great that there is all that technology offered to us out there and if we can use it to save lives why not? If adding a camera on the back of my car will help save lives I will do it. That doesn't mean I will not be cautious anymore but I believe so it would prevent injuring little kids and animals.

I will have to disagree with you guys who keep talking about checking you car before you get in. I understand that would be good way to prevent accident but only if the world stop for next 2 minutes. You never know who will run from behind, and the ones that are our biggest concern, kids are not tall enough to be seen without some help, therefore I think we should have some sort of alarm system or cameras on our cars.

Yeah, add a camera. Just another reason not to look behind while backing out. I always approch my car from the rear to check. No technology will beat human eyes in this area.

While I was driving through a parking lot, looking for an empty space, a woman backed out of a space and broadsided my car so hard that I tipped up onto two wheels. She was driving an SUV with a hard tire cover on the back; she had to have simply floured it and never looked back. Fortunately, it was on my passenger side, unoccupied at the time. As it turned out, the elderly female occupant had many, many accidents on her record.

Since that time, I take nothing for granted. I do not drive or walk behind any vehicle without knowing if there is a driver inside and/or are the backup lights on. The vision of trailer hitches at kneecap level send ice water through my veins.

Anyone over the age of 4 should be taught this as personal responsibility. The age of 3 or younger, or animals, it is your responsibility as a driver to protect these innocent lives. I might add that if a young child were playing in my driveway, I'd take him/her by the hand and deliver them to their nearest parent.

We cannot legislate everything. Common sense (does it still exist?) will do just fine.

What responsibility does the parent have?Do you just let a little toddler wander around?We all have been someplace and seen how some parents just let there kids run around.Its a afull thing to lose a child but its not always the drivers fault I think that everyone has to look at whet is going on around them.

GEt a grip people. Use common sense. You don't need to add technology. You don't need more government oversight. There is no need for some task force to total the number of accidents that happen each year. And we don't need to spend time trying to find someone to blame for stupidity in driving other than the driver.

Besides having no laws regarding visibility around a vehicle, there doesn't seem to be any real punishment of the driver who hits and injures and/or kills someone in this manner. My mother was hit and killed by a car backing out of a parking space in a grocery store parking lot. They charged the driver with "failure to yield right-of-way to a pedestrian". The driver admitted she didn't look over both shoulders before she backed up, and her negligence caused someone to die, but she got off with little if any punishment. Needless to say, I make a visual panoramic sweep around my car when I back up. I think the law needs to get tougher against the drivers. There is no excuse for not knowing what is behind your car when you back up. I have had many near misses myself. Watch people in grocery store parking lots sometime and you would be shocked by the number of people who barely look behind them when they back out, or even use their rear-view or side mirrors.

I don't see what is so hard about checking around your vehicle before backing up. We depend on technology too much as it is. I don't even fully trust my side mirrors, and always look over my shoulder. A solution to this would be to have driver become more aware of what is happening around them. If you ride a motorcycle you become painfully aware how clueless drivers are. Adding more gadgets is not the answer, they could fail. Just be more aware, put the cellphone away, and look over your shoulder.

Instead of adding more layers of federal legislation on automobile manufacturers and more electronics on a car to break down, why don't you just grab some personal responsibility by the horns and take 5 seconds to look behind and around the vehicle before you jump in and roar off?

Installing rear view cameras, even after-market cameras in vehicles is a very good idea, but I do not believe they will be 100% effective on account of all the distractions drivers already have, such as cell phones, stereo, food consumption, interaction with passengers, etc. I think a great idea would be sensors in the rear of the vehicle which would activate the cars braking system should an object be detected behind the vehicle. Combined with a rear view camera, this would certainly help reduce the number of backover accidents.

is this a joke. Where were those people while their 3 yo son was geting run over? stuffing their faces with food! so now it is teh problem of teh people who accidentally ran over the child while they were filling their bellies? No brainer, sure now that they have fatten their pockets with the other drivers insurance money because they are bad parents. I ask what did they drive before they traded in their son's life for soemone else's insurance? i highly doubt a vehicle with a rear camera. they were to busy to even watch their child making him everyone else's responsiblity. How can eating be more importnat than watching your own child? only in America do they reward BAD Parenting.

Kiddie System for ATWEC would help :)

There is a great company out of memphis tn.Called atwec technologies.They have been working with many states and legislatures they have great products with a lifetime warranty.All there devices all work when you put your vehicle in reverse it has a super loud voice warning.they are the only ones in the market that have the voice alarms.and are very dedicated to child safety..their website is atwec.com I think they are about $60 takes about 20 minutes to install..

It is difficult to see behind a vehicle. That's why we parents must always be on the lookout for our young children.

Did it ever occur to any of you Einsteins that drivers that know what they are doing check the back of their car before getting into it, and the area around the car? It takes about 1 second.

Locally, we had an incident with a news anchor who backed up over the other news anchor's toddler son...TRUE STORY!! She had come over to the house to discuss a story and when she left, she accidently ran over the child. Thank God the child survived but this type of technology would have prevented the extensive amount of medical trauma this child went through.
For more information about the incident, try the Charleston SC WCBD TV station website and the archive files.

As your story points out. The technology already exists. I had a voice enhanced Kiddie Alert system installed on my SUV for less than $200.00. This shouldn't be that difficult a problem to solve. I just don't think most realize what a huge problem it truly is. Very informative story. Thank you.

As regards the article by George Lewis and subsequent newscast on SUV backovers of children, it shouldn't cost $70,000-90,000 to obtain an SUV with either a video camera or sound system to avoid rolling over someone or something. I purchased a Honda Pilot in 2003 for $27,000. I chose to add a back-up sensor for an extra $1,000. I don't think that the cost for the same package would have risen that high in the past three years. The technology is within reach of almost everyone.

I would very much support a requirement that all vehicles come equipped with the technology to view the area behind the vehicle.....I would be happy to have such equipment installed on my Chrysler Town and Country right now.