Boy hit by hybrid car; mom says he didn’t hear it coming
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by MCCBAdmin
Fortunately, the young 8 year old was not badly injured.
People in the visually impaired and blind community have been concerned about these cars for several years. A bill (HR-5734) currently in Congress, seeks to provide solutions that will impact not only those who are visually impaired, but as this latest case shows, children, bicyclists, runners and others.
Owen Erickson was not badly hurt, though he did end up on the hood of the car. But when the car’s driver moved his Toyota Prius from the street to the curb, Flannigan noticed something. “I saw the car, but I could not hear anything,” she recalled about the hybrid vehicle which was operating on battery power at the time. “It is totally silent.”
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