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Vehicle Safety News

September 16, 2008

Associated Press, "Child dies caught in car's power window"

A 3-year-old boy died after his neck became wedged between a car's power window and door frame, police said Friday. Arturo Campos was apparently playing with the power window controls in the passenger seat while his father spoke on a nearby pay phone, officials said.

The death was considered accidental and no charges were expected, said Officer April Harding of the Los Angeles Police Department. She said the father left the key in the ignition with the power on as he left to make the phone call Thursday night, making sure he could see his son. As the father's back was turned, the boy apparently hit the button that activated the power window and suffered a severe neck compression injury, said Capt. Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's office. The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died.

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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a national plaintiffs' law firm of over 50 lawyers with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our attorneys are recognized for the successful prosecution of lawsuits involving deaths, personal injuries and property damage due to defective products, including dangerous and defective vehicles.

In 2007, in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained the fourth-largest verdict in California for the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that a defective transmission was responsible for making a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and run over Richard Mraz.

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