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September 9, 2003

Mansfield News Journal (Mansfield, OH), "Mom on crusade for safer power windows"

Mansfield resident Rebecca Hergatt spoke at the National Press Club last month in Washington, D.C., before a room full of journalists. Hergatt's son Mac, 5, survived a near-fatal accident June 13 when he put his head out a window of the family's 1992 Buick Regal. Unaware of the child's actions, Hergatt put up the power windows of the car while parked in the driveway of their Pavonia West Road residence.

Hergatt sought answers from automakers after the accident, but had little success. Through the Internet she found Kids and Cars, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child injuries and death from non-traffic vehicular incidents. The organization has documented 23 deaths from power windows since 1993.

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