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A quick exit from locked trunks.(SAFETY ALERT)(Kids And Cars' Quick-Out Emergency Trunk Release)(Brief article)
Every year, 10 to 20 people die while trapped in a car trunk, says Janette Fennell, founder and president of Kids And Cars, a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce injuries and deaths of children in and around motor vehicles. Some of the victims are kids playing hide-and-seek, but more are adults locked in the trunk during the course of a crime.
Since the 2002 model year, new cars have had a glow-in-the-dark release handle in the trunk, designed to allow escape. (A few cars, including the Ford Taurus, were equipped with it before 2002.)
Most older cars, however, still present a hazard. Fortunately, there is an inexpensive solution: the Quick-Out Emergency Trunk Release, ...
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- Ford Statement on Safety Issue: Emergency Trunk Release.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 16, 1998 700+ words
DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Another automaker has announced plans to retrofit vehicles with an emergency release latch to help prevent tragedies resulting from adults or children being trapped inside the trunk. The following statement can be attributed to Helen Petrauskas, Ford (NYSE:
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 30, 1999 700+ words
...become the first automaker to install a standard emergency trunk release system on a range of passenger cars. "All Ford...Ford Motor Company." Ford's innovative new emergency trunk release system uses a special cable-operated release...
- Donnelly Applauds NHTSA Trunk Release Proposal.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 16, 1999 700+ words
...pending SmartRelease(TM) trunk release system uses advanced electronic...America will feature an automatic trunk release system. This technology represents...sophisticated than the manual emergency trunk release handles that Donnelly developed...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Craig, Charlotte W. March 30, 1999 700+ words
An emergency trunk release will be standard equipment on the 2000 Taurus _ and on every other...summer. Ford is so far the only domestic automaker featuring a trunk release as standard equipment. Ford's system is a cable that, when...
- Ford Adds Trunk Release as Standard Equipment.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Craig, Charlotte W. March 29, 1999 700+ words
...Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 30 -- An emergency trunk release will be standard equipment on the 2000 Taurus...so far the only domestic automaker featuring a trunk release as standard equipment. Ford's system is a cable...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 8, 1999 700+ words
...announced today the development of interior trunk release mechanisms to be available to a targeted...expects to begin to make available trunk release retrofit kits for these vehicles...priced , dealer-installed interior trunk release kit. In addition to retrofitting vehicles...
- COUNT 11 MORE REASONS FOR TRUNK RELEASE LEVERS.(Editorial)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) August 13, 1998 700+ words
...and about one-quarter of them died, according to the Trunk Release Urgently Needed Coalition, or TRUNC. These were needless...same to the automakers, we'd prefer to have an interior trunk release available - especially since the automakers insist that neither...
