By Leftlane Staff
Monday, Nov 7th, 2005 @ 7:22 am

Julie Peck’s son, Jackson, was four years old when he was killed two days before Christmas. Jackson’s grandmother couldn’t see the young boy running up from behind just as she was backing up the family’s SUV. Experts say so-called backover deaths have increased in frequency since SUVs became standard issue for American families. “More and more people are buying bigger and bigger,” said Consumer Reports auto test director David Champion, “and the bigger the vehicle, the bigger the blind spot.” Champion illustrated the problem using 28-inch-high cones, about the height of a typical two-year old. The cone had to be a little over 18 feet to be seen from the driver’s seat of a Dodge Grand Caravan minivan and it was invisible up to 25 feet from the back of a large Toyota Tundra pick-up.

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