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07/10/2008 13:35. "We lost our daughter, not ever knowing the back seat was deadly," said Kevin Gleason of Florence, Ky. Their five-year-old daughter Sarah was strapped into the back seat of the family´s four-door 1994 Buick Century when it was rear-ended by a pickup traveling at just 24 mph. Sarah´s heart ruptured after the front passenger seat carrying Kevin Gleason collapsed backward.

It all began on the morning of July 19, 1996. The Gleason family was planning to leave for a retreat to the Kentucky Mountains, and like all concerned parents, they made sure their children were buckled up in the back seat. Diana Gleason was at the wheel next to her husband, Kevin. Their son Ben, 9, sat behind his mother. Five-year-old Sarah was in the rear center seat, statistically the safest place for a child, playing... // Los Angeles Chronicle