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Sep 3, 2012
Law Proposal: Sensor For Child In Backseat
Last week there was a tragic incident in which a 4 year old child was left in a car in Modiin Ilit and died from the heat.
These incidents happen all over the world, and I don't know if any country or organization has found a way to identify the cause of the problem, how a parent, or even not a parent as happened in this recent incident, can forget a kid in the car like that, and then work to solving it.
Interestingly, MK Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz (Ichud Leumi) has proposed a law that he says would solve the problem, but the Minister of Transportation has not kept his promise to support the proposal, up until now. Katz wants to obligate all vehicles to have a sensor installed that would warn someone that there is a child in the car.
Katz says he proposed this plan to the Minister 2.5 years ago, and he received a promise of support, yet in the committees discussing the issue the decision was taken to not support it. Katz plans to resubmit the proposal of requiring installation of a sensor when the Knesset gets back into full session.
(source: Ladaat)
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These incidents happen all over the world, and I don't know if any country or organization has found a way to identify the cause of the problem, how a parent, or even not a parent as happened in this recent incident, can forget a kid in the car like that, and then work to solving it.
Interestingly, MK Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz (Ichud Leumi) has proposed a law that he says would solve the problem, but the Minister of Transportation has not kept his promise to support the proposal, up until now. Katz wants to obligate all vehicles to have a sensor installed that would warn someone that there is a child in the car.
Katz says he proposed this plan to the Minister 2.5 years ago, and he received a promise of support, yet in the committees discussing the issue the decision was taken to not support it. Katz plans to resubmit the proposal of requiring installation of a sensor when the Knesset gets back into full session.
(source: Ladaat)
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Katz's motives are doubtless of the very best, but his proposal seems to me like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
ReplyDeleteWhat I still cannot understand (like hundreds, if not thousands, of others) is how the driver could possibly have forgotten the child's presence. After all, he was driving a car, not a Greyhound bus.