Just walked away from a head on car collision

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36. I'm glad you're all okay

In 1969 I witnessed a head-on on an Interstate with both vehicles traveling at 80-90 mph. At least 6 people, adults and kids, were thrown through the windshield of one car, and I was the first to reach the victims. That was a horrible experience.

More than a decade later I worked for passage of mandatory state child safety seat laws. My contribution was a study of kids in crashes, with recommendations to state governors and legislators for passage of laws. It was a federal agency study, "Child Passenger Protection Against. Death, Disability, and Disfigurement in Motor Vehicle Accidents." While the study was going on, my agency held three public hearings around the country to highlight the issue.

But I don't deserve any special any special thanks--I wasn't so special. There were a LOT of people working on the issue in those days. My rolodex for that project alone had 500-600 names in it, people all over the country working at every level of government and in safety orgs and law enforcement and medicine, etc. We knew that change was inevitable; it was just a matter of speeding it up. It was a privilege to be a small part of it.