dmcowen674
No Lifer
Dave's math was incorrect
1200 * 50% over 6 years is 100/year not 600/year
The thread title was corrected for his glaring (if not deliberate oversight).
Anandtech Moderator
SUV thread
They suck up gas, cause horrific wrecks and KILL:
Many suggestions come to mind besides the rear cameras and sensors
Having the windows down so you can hear
Always having a spotter when backing these behemoths
Not having a vehicle that's so high off the ground to begin with when you have small children.
6-23-2007 Backover deaths create family nightmares
Adrianna was one of more than 1,200 children under 15 who were killed since 2000 in nontraffic motor vehicle accidents in the United States. Half of those fatalities were in backovers, almost all of them involving children under 5
Rachel and David believed they'd taken all the precautions to protect their children. They had installed a fence around the backyard swimming pool, with a gate latch high enough so the kids couldn't reach it. But when they purchased their Infiniti QX4, they were coaxed into getting a sunroof. No mention was made of rear cameras that could help them see better as they back up, Rachel says.
A pediatrician from Syosset, N.Y., Greg believes he and his wife, Leslie, did all the right things. They childproofed their Long Island home and researched the safest SUV for their two sons, Scott, 5, and 2-year-old Cameron, before settling on a BMW X5.
One evening, Oct. 19, 2002, Greg went out to park the truck with the rear facing their condominium. Street traffic could be heavy in the morning when he left for work.
"I remember explicitly driving that car from the street into the driveway that night," he says. "I was backing it in between parked cars on the driveway. I was going very slowly. I didn't want to hit anything. I was looking through the rearview mirrors, looking over my shoulder.
"I felt a bump. The bump was at the front wheel. I was going backward. What was down there ? 9:30 at night? The newspaper wasn't there yet. As the car went back farther, my son was in the headlights."
It was Cameron.
"When people realize a conservative, well-educated, middle-aged pediatrician taking all the necessary safety measures, who spends his days and nights helping families stay safe and healthy, accidentally backs over and kills his son, then it's time to realize backover injuries are real," he says.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in a report to Congress in November, said backover accidents are not a recent phenomenon. But NHTSA disputes perceptions that the number of accidents is increasing as the size of the nation's vehicle fleet grows ? led by SUVs and minivans, which tend to have larger rear blind zones.
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I wish the Gov a speedy recovery and the trooper that was driving him.
That out of the way I also believe he should be issued a citation for not wearing a seat belt.
It doesn't say anything about the trooper not wearing a seat belt.
A typical do as I say not what I do from the elected officials and authorities.
4-13-2007 N.J. gov. wasn't wearing seatbelt in crash
CAMDEN, N.J. - Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law when his official SUV crashed into a guard rail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, a spokesman said Friday.
A state trooper was driving Corzine to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team Thursday night when another vehicle, swerving to avoid a pickup truck, hit the governor's SUV and sent it into the guard rail on the Garden State Parkway.
The crash broke the governor's leg, six ribs, his sternum and a vertebrae. Authorities were searching for the pickup truck driver blamed for causing it.
Seat belts are mandatory for everyone in front seats in New Jersey; the fine for violating the law is $46.
1200 * 50% over 6 years is 100/year not 600/year
The thread title was corrected for his glaring (if not deliberate oversight).
Anandtech Moderator
SUV thread
They suck up gas, cause horrific wrecks and KILL:
Many suggestions come to mind besides the rear cameras and sensors
Having the windows down so you can hear
Always having a spotter when backing these behemoths
Not having a vehicle that's so high off the ground to begin with when you have small children.
6-23-2007 Backover deaths create family nightmares
Adrianna was one of more than 1,200 children under 15 who were killed since 2000 in nontraffic motor vehicle accidents in the United States. Half of those fatalities were in backovers, almost all of them involving children under 5
Rachel and David believed they'd taken all the precautions to protect their children. They had installed a fence around the backyard swimming pool, with a gate latch high enough so the kids couldn't reach it. But when they purchased their Infiniti QX4, they were coaxed into getting a sunroof. No mention was made of rear cameras that could help them see better as they back up, Rachel says.
A pediatrician from Syosset, N.Y., Greg believes he and his wife, Leslie, did all the right things. They childproofed their Long Island home and researched the safest SUV for their two sons, Scott, 5, and 2-year-old Cameron, before settling on a BMW X5.
One evening, Oct. 19, 2002, Greg went out to park the truck with the rear facing their condominium. Street traffic could be heavy in the morning when he left for work.
"I remember explicitly driving that car from the street into the driveway that night," he says. "I was backing it in between parked cars on the driveway. I was going very slowly. I didn't want to hit anything. I was looking through the rearview mirrors, looking over my shoulder.
"I felt a bump. The bump was at the front wheel. I was going backward. What was down there ? 9:30 at night? The newspaper wasn't there yet. As the car went back farther, my son was in the headlights."
It was Cameron.
"When people realize a conservative, well-educated, middle-aged pediatrician taking all the necessary safety measures, who spends his days and nights helping families stay safe and healthy, accidentally backs over and kills his son, then it's time to realize backover injuries are real," he says.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in a report to Congress in November, said backover accidents are not a recent phenomenon. But NHTSA disputes perceptions that the number of accidents is increasing as the size of the nation's vehicle fleet grows ? led by SUVs and minivans, which tend to have larger rear blind zones.
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I wish the Gov a speedy recovery and the trooper that was driving him.
That out of the way I also believe he should be issued a citation for not wearing a seat belt.
It doesn't say anything about the trooper not wearing a seat belt.
A typical do as I say not what I do from the elected officials and authorities.
4-13-2007 N.J. gov. wasn't wearing seatbelt in crash
CAMDEN, N.J. - Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law when his official SUV crashed into a guard rail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, a spokesman said Friday.
A state trooper was driving Corzine to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team Thursday night when another vehicle, swerving to avoid a pickup truck, hit the governor's SUV and sent it into the guard rail on the Garden State Parkway.
The crash broke the governor's leg, six ribs, his sternum and a vertebrae. Authorities were searching for the pickup truck driver blamed for causing it.
Seat belts are mandatory for everyone in front seats in New Jersey; the fine for violating the law is $46.
