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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for State Legislation - Unattended Children in Vehicles
FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2007 Session of the Maryland General Assembly to introduce legislation to amend State law to increase the penalties for leaving children unattended in motor vehicles.
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The Centers for Disease Control holds that while national attention concerning motor vehicles and child safety has been focused largely on protecting children as occupants transported in traffic on public roads, children who are unattended in or around motor vehicles that are not in traffic are also at risk for injury and death. Research done by the Centers and the nonprofit Trauma Foundation documented that during July 2000 to June 2001, there were an estimated 9,160 nonfatal injuries and 78 fatal injuries among children under the age of 14 years who were left unattended in or around motor vehicles that were not in traffic. It was also determined that the most common type of fatal incident was exposure to excessive heat inside a motor vehicle and that 82% of such fatal injuries occurred among children less than 4 years of age.
In a June 2005 hearing before a Congressional Committee on the Reauthorization of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Found...
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