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A new warning for drivers, as cars and trucks get bigger, so do the blind spots in front of the driver. Vicky Nguyen now has our exclusive on new efforts to address the deadly danger.
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Four-year-old Hudson Foschi was full of life, but in 2019 this vivacious little boy's life was cut short.
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When his mom Jackie let him out of their Yukon Denali XL to pick up the mail in their driveway, like they did every day.
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And that day, he got in front of the car? - I don't know, all I know is, when I got out of my car, and I started screaming for him, he didn't answer, and the last place I wanted to look was under the car, I'm like, no, there's no way.
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SUVs and trucks make up seven of every 10 Vehicles sold last year, as they grow in popularity and size, so has the number of deadly so-called front over crashes.
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Many of the victims just four years old or younger, the incidents often occurring in a driveway, garage, or parking lot.
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Consumer Reports engineer Jennifer Stockburger has studied this danger. - If those are your eyes in the driver's seat, you can only see in a straight line.
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With parents permission, we lined up kids in front of the best-selling car in the country, the Ford F-150.
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One two three... I couldn't see any of them over the hood until finally, the 11th child sitting down, I can see the top of her head, her little white bow.
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We had similar results with the Toyota Tundra, the Cadillac Escalade, and the Jeep Wagoneer.
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There's a very simple solution. - Today Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal announced The STOP Frontovers Act.
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You would mandate some kind of device sensor or camera in the front of all cars? - All cars, because the more cars have them, the less expensive it will be, safety should not be a matter of affordability, safety ought to be standard.
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Some cars like the Wagoneer and Escalade, already come standard with technology like sensors and cameras, the makers say may be able to prevent frontovers.
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Stockburger shows us how front-facing cameras eliminate the blind zone. - That is child number one, and I can see him clearly. - Clearly, as opposed to, I can't see any of their heads out the front view.
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Vehicles continue to get even more safe as automakers across the board test, develop, and integrate new safety technologies, that can help save lives and prevent injuries.
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Jackie believes those kinds of technologies should be standard, and would have saved her son's life.
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I just would love to see not another parent have to go through what our family and so many others are going through. - Vicky Nguyen, NBC News, New York.