Air Medical Services Denied

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Legal Reader has kindly published an article on this important subject that I submitted pro bono. 

It tells a true story how our work for years to facilitate air medical rescue was thwarted by powerful economic interests.

Ironically a subsequent crash of the Governor of NJ was saved by air medical rescue and transport to a Trauma Center.  See

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/nyregion/13corzine.html

All seriously injured crash victims deserve such life saving care.

Thanks to Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook and You who Care for Crash Victims

Dear Care for Crash Victims Readers:

Recently I met a fellow citizen who was saved by a side curtain airbag.  He was in a 2015 Mercedes struck on the driver side door by a driver in a blinding rain storm. 

This story led to my wondering how many lives have been saved by airbags in the U.S. and worldwide.

No easy answers so far.  But clearly a wonderful success story that is growing year by year.

Hopefully this will stimulate other efforts to prevent tragedies.

Be safe,

Lou

Calling for an End to Crash Drowning Deaths

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

A tragic Crash Drowning Death was in the news recently.

An article I submitted pro bono to Legal Reader has now been published.

Please see

https://www.legalreader.com/end-the-tragedy-of-crash-drowning-deaths/
Hopefully we can help make progress in ending such tragedies.

Lou

Consumer Reports Puts Your Safety First

Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:

Legal Reader has kindly published an article that I submitted pro bono on this life saving initiative by Consumer Reports.

See https://www.legalreader.com/putting-your-safety-first-consumer-reports-calls-for-federal-standard-for-acn/

Having worked on the life saving technology of Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) since the early 1990s it is gratifying to see Consumer Reports launch this initiative.

In response to Consumer Reports’ call for public support I wrote this article that lays out some of the history of the enormous number of tragedies since 1982 that now exceed the number of lives lost in all U. S. Wars.

I document what NHTSA knew, when they knew it, as NHTSA counted more than 1,600,000 fatalities since 1982.

Please help Consumer Reports succeed in this life saving effort to get NHTSA to promulgate an ACN Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard.

Lou