• On the average of once a day in this country, young children and toddlers are backed over and catastrophically injured by the rotating blades of a riding lawnmower.
  
  
• In most of these tragedies the victims are age six or younger. Additionally in almost all of these gruesome accidents the children and infants are horribly mutilated, crippled, or killed.
  
  
• Worse still, in most riding lawnmower back over accidents, the operator of the riding lawnmower is the parent, grandparent, sibling, or neighbor of the injured and disfigured child.
  
  
• The emotional and psychological effect on the driver of the riding lawnmower and the family of the riding lawn mower back over victim is devastating.
  
  
• The resulting deaths, injuries, and emotional and psychological consequences the victim and their families suffer from riding lawnmower accidents can be easily avoided.
  
  
• The manufacturers of these consumer products (riding lawnmowers) can utilize technically available and economically feasible safety devices.
  
  
• These devices prevent the riding lawnmower blade from turning while the machine is backing up in reverse.
  
  
• Most riding lawnmower manufacturers in the lawnmower industry knew that these injuries were occurring and had the technology to prevent them.

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