Thanks for Ralph Nader’s Work & for Crash Victims’ Work


Thanks for Ralph Nader’s Work & for Crash Victims’ Work

February, 2016

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Thanks to Nader

February 27th is Ralph Nader’s birthday.  Seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

50 years ago, Unsafe at Any Speed, written by Nader was published.  Since then an estimated 3.5 million American lives have been saved.  Seehttps://www.careforcrashvictims.com/blog/blog-unsafe/

Is there a stadium anywhere big enough to hold that many people?

Where are those 3.5 million people and their families?  Many people may not even know enough to be grateful.  If they have a close call they may just think “Thank God”.

Invisibility of Lives Saved and Lives Lost
Although many are saved, many continue to be lost, needlessly.  See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/blog/blog-thanksgiving/
Both the lives saved and the lives lost are not yet sufficiently visible to the world to create the needed political and market demand to stop the tragedies.
Thanks to Crash Victims’ Work 
Marianne Karth’s work to prevent future tragedies by making visible the loss of her two daughters has begun to inform work worldwide.  See attached presentation on saving children using German medical data on vehicular injuries to children.  Note:  Prof. Lob was very helpful in creating the ADAMS database for the U.S.  See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/monthly-reports/blog-25reduction/ andhttp://www.adamsairmed.org/public_site.html

Cally Houck’s decade of work to prevent future tragedies by making visible the loss of her two daughters has changed the law of the land in the U.S. so that rental companies must not rent out cars with unfixed defects,  See http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-cally-houck-rental-car-law-20151221-story.html  and http://www.amazon.com/Death-Rental-Car-Houck-Changed/dp/0692559132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455883020&sr=1-1&keywords=Cally+Houck

The work of these crash victims are making tragedies more visible and more preventable.  
All humanity must be grateful to them and to many others who do difficult work to prevent tragedies.  See https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/assets/Trial_2015_09Sept_AmmonsreviewofLemov.pdf
Lou

 

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