Monthly Archives: May 2016

A simple way for you to support truck underride research & advocacy efforts

AnnaLeah and Mary, Safety Advocacy, Truck Safety

If you LIKE the facebook page of the Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy law firm during the month of May, they will donate $2 to AnnaLeah & Mary for Truck Safety (maximum $1500).

To add your support, go here and LIKE their page:  https://www.facebook.com/NurenbergParis/

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We are excited at this opportunity to benefit from a community-minded organization.

We were privileged to become friends with one of their attorneys, Andy Young, who also holds a CDL, owns a small truck company, and is passionate about truck safety. He will be the Moderator of the panel discussion at the upcoming Underride Roundtable at IIHS on May 5.

 

May Day: Remembering Our Butterfly Girls–Full of Life, Frozen in Time

AnnaLeah and Mary, Safety Advocacy, Truck Safety, ,

Last year, I saw this statue of two young girls excited about a butterfly in a jar. It reminded me so much of AnnaLeah and Mary. We decided to get it this year to help us as we remember the 3rd anniversary of our truck crash, on May 4, 2013, which took Mary and AnnaLeah from us.

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They were a bit older (though not much), than these girls seem to be, when their lives were frozen in time–with no warning, rhyme or reason. Those of us whom they left behind will continue on with our lives–getting older, making new memories–forced to do so without them joining in.

We will be different than we might have otherwise been if they had not been snatched from us. And they have been robbed of all that might have been. Our two fun-loving, creative and adventurous girls.

Imagine how that unnatural disturbance is taking place all over our country and globe as many lives are unexpectedly and tragically changed forever. 33,000/year traffic crash deaths in the U.S. on average. Year after year.

We will remember you, precious ones.

AnnaLeah & Mary: Our Butterfly Girls

 

 

 

 

Just got home from the latest side guard crash test. Watch it here!

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April 30. 2016

We just got home from helping with Aaron Kiefer’s latest side guard test. Watch it here:

Aaron will be taking this truck with his innovative side/rear guard to the Underride Roundtable at IIHS next week for everyone to see. Then he plans to leave it there in hopes that IIHS will do their own crash testing of his prototype.

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Here’s my report on the first crash test of his side guard prototype on March 13, 2016: Witnessed safety defect in action at underride crash tests; this is what snuffed out my daughters’ lives.

Photo album from a day of crash testing from preparation to execution:

 

If only more had been done to protect against underride before it was too late for Mary and AnnaLeah.