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Is from new york. in 2005 she hit and injured her 3-year-old daughter, kate, while backing out of her driveway. >> i ultimately hit her with the car, but was able to hear her screams and stopped the car and pulled forward and came back and found what i thought might be someone else's child lying on the driveway. she was bleeding literally from head to toe. her face was bleeding and she was hurt and she was screaming why did you hit me? i said i couldn't see you. >> luckily she didn't suffer life-threatening injuries, tbut changed her life for -- forever. she is part of a group suing the d.o.t....

Safety shouldn't be an option. >> 292 people are killed a year by cars backing up. 18,000 are injured. 44% of the deaths are kids under the age of 5. the d.o.t. declined to comment. the lawsuit asked the d.o.t. to issue the rule within t90 days. >> those numbers are so tragic. >> history is coming to life for some lucky students in new york. more than 400 years ago henry hudson sailed from lower manhattan to the state capital albany and every september a full-scale replica of his ship "half moon requesti" real voyag. we have more from verplank, new york. >> reporter: in september of 1609, henr...

Head to toe-her face was bleeding, her clothing was torn. she was screaming and asking me why i hit her with the car. i said to her, kate, i didn't see you. i didn't know you were there. it was that simple. i just didn't see her. >> luxurckilyluckily, kate suff life-threatening injuries. now her mother is a safety advocate for kids and cars.org. she's part of a group suing the d.o.t. for not passing regulation that requires new cars to have improved rear view visibility, specifically with rear-view cameras by 2011. more than two years and four delays later, the d.o.t. has yet to issue the safe...

More than two years eighter, the dot has yet to issue a safety rule. >> congress directed the department of transportation to issue a regulation so that there is a standard for all vehicles, so that all drivers, not just those that can afford to add a camera on to their car either when they purchase it or as an after market device, and safety should not be an option. >> 292 people a year are killed by cars backing up and 18,000 are injured and 44% of the deaths are kids under the age of 5. the department of transportation declined to comment to us, and the lawsuit asks the dot to implement the...

What are you seeing and hearing now? >> reporter: chris, if you're talking to me, i lost you. >> can you hear me? >> reporter: i can hear you now, yes. >> what are you seeing and hearing now? we just got the report that this is an active situation confirmed to us by jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: the events here and the scene here on the ground would definitely reflect that. we've had two helicopters now, both are circling pretty low. none of the emergency response vehicles have really departed aside from occasionally we've seen ambulances. obviously possibly taking the wounded to nearby hospi...