A pediatrician in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Gulbransen brusquely recites the government statistics on backovers: Every week, nearly 40 children younger than age 5 are injured in backover accidents. On average, two of them die. Most are run over by a relative, often by a parent. Every single week, he says. Children died after being backed over on a naval base in Kings Bay, Ga; on tribal land in Everson, Wash.; at a Bible camp in Fairmont, N.C.; in a mobile home park in San Antonio; in a cemetery in Dripping Springs, and at a beach in Corpus Christi. They were killed under a carport in South Houston, outside a stately brick home in northwest Houston and in the driveway of two volunteer firefighters in Liberty County. The kids spent their last moments, before the crunch of tires and brakes, flying a kite, chasing a basketball, picking up a piggy bank, looking for a lost puppy, riding a toy tractor, a tricycle, a scooter. Infants as young as 10 months old crawled to their deaths, crushed in their driveways. Many of the children were backed over by their own parents as they ran to get one more hug or kiss goodbye
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:09:10 +0000
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