Sad story out of Everett, where a 1-year old girl was run over by a car backing out of a driveway.
The initial story doesn't have many details...no word on if the driver was related to the little girl, or if the girl lived at that residence or not...but, man...what a shame. It also seems to me that there is story about something like this happening every 2-3 months...some little kid playing around behind a car, and getting run over by someone backing up. Over half the time, it is a traumatized family member involved in the accident.
From a personal standpoint, I know I am sometimes guilty of backing out without doing a good check behind the car. At work, the company is big on pushing a 360 degree walk around before getting in a car, and if you have a passenger, the recommend using the passenger as a spotter when you are backing up. My F-150 has backup sensors, and our Mazda CX-5 has a full on backup camera. All of this combines to make me fairly complacent on those occasions when I drive our Subaru...which has none of those things. More than once I have put it in reverse and started rolling without really checking over my shoulder until I'm actually ready to back into the street.
Just a little safety share as we head into the weekend.
I back into my garage, and try to back into parking spaces when available, or drive through double lots to be going out when starting. It takes a little more time, and is for other reasons, it just usually changes... my perspective on this thing. It would tear me up to do something like that. I'm already a shell of a man for... things. Don't need to make that thinner but we don't get to always make that call, even being careful and cautious, which we can't always be.
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