Despite recent Broward case, number of kids killed by backing up cars is declining

Karena Caputo had just gotten back from a run on a Tuesday in May 2007 and was wheeling the week’s trash up the road on her 5-acre property in San Diego, California, when she heard her husband screaming for her.

Her husband was late for work and backed their Hummer H3 out of the driveway, not realizing their 19-month-old son, Dillon, had wandered away from his toys in the garage and into the vehicle’s path.

He hit the boy. Dillon died shortly after being airlifted to a local hospital…

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