The Kids and Car Safety organization says about 60 children are run over by a slow, forward-moving vehicle in driveways and parking lots nationwide every week.

About two of them die.

The crashes are due to a blind zone formed, usually with trucks, vans and SUVs.

“With the bigger boxier vehicles that we're driving today, we have bigger blind zones.”
said Amber Rollins, director of Kids and Car Safety organization.

The nonprofit's goal is to save the lives of children in and around vehicles. They were also a part of the initiative to get federal regulation passed that requires the backup cameras we see in cars today.

Part of Kids and Car Safety's mission is to collect data on very specific crashes – "frontovers."

If a person is hit on a public road, those incidents are called ‘vehicle versus pedestrian’ crashes.

"But if it happens not on a public roadway, say, in an apartment complex, a mobile home park, the driveway of your home, really any parking lot, these are all private property locations and they are not considered a traffic crash." Rollins said. "They would be considered a frontover."

Since Kids and Car Safety has been collecting data for the past 30 years, there have been 80 children killed in frontover deaths in the state of Florida alone.

And because they track incidents that happen off of public roadways, Rollins says the actual number is likely higher.

"Even the data that we are able to document is a complete and drastic undercount of what's really happening," she said.

Here are some of the statistics that we do know:

• 75% of frontovers involve a larger vehicle such as a truck, van or an SUV
• 61% of cases where the driver was known involve a person who knew the child hit
• 93% of frontover victims are children six and under

Here are some ways to prevent these crashes:

• Rollins says you can install camera systems to your car. You can buy them online and/or go to your local auto shop and see what your options are.
• This may seem like common knowledge, but directly supervise children. An example of this is if they’re riding a bike, try to ride alongside them.
• Consider adding child-locks to doors and stick-on alarms to alert you if the doors open.

Kids and Car Safety is also advocating for federal enforcement to make passenger vehicles include automatic emergency braking and 360-degree camera systems.