Her story makes for a chilling read but it's something that has happened to many people over the years and something that can still happen today. The Kids & Cars organization was kicked off by Janette Fennell, a woman who felt first hand the horror of being stuck in a car's trunk all the way back in 1995.
That's why if you have a car that's older than 2002 you should retrofit it with a lever of this kind that's a real bargain considering it actually saves lives. What is more, the advocacy group that pushed for the implementation of this simple and very effective system, Kids and Cars, reports that between 10 and 20 people die stuck in trunks of older cars in the U.S. However, as many as 22 children have died since 2002 in the trunks of older cars that did not have this safety feature. Since then, no kid has died by getting stuck in the trunk of a car equipped with the latch. At the time, the NHTSA "stated that it was not aware of any data indicating that there is much likelihood of occurrence of unintentional entrapment in a vehicle's trunk," and, as such, denied the petition. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) had been petitioned as far back as 1984 about urging automakers to implement on all cars an interior trunk-release lever that would free people stuck in trunks before it's too late. A brief history of the trunk emergency exit latch
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