Years after law passed, still no rules on rearview safety

 
 Paul and Judy Neiman held a photo of their daughter, Sydnee, at their home in West Richland, Wash., last week. Sydnee died in late 2011 after Judy accidentally backed over her. Judy Neiman says the government and automakers need to do more to prevent such accidents.

 In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor's sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, would not make it this time. ¶ Her own cries of: How could I have missed seeing her? ¶ The 53-year-old woman has sentenced herself to go on living in the awful stillness of her West Richland, Wash., home, where she makes a plea for what she wants since she can't have Sydnee back: More steps taken by the government and automakers to help prevent parents from accidentally killing their children, as she did a year ago this month.
"They have to do something, because I've read about it happening to other people. I read about it and I said, 'I would die if it happens to me,' " Neiman says. "Then it did happen to me."

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