The Denver Post, "Death spurs car-window debate; Springs tot choked by glass"

          Sarah Lynn Gaerlan was removed from life support after four days of brain inactivity and pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night. She apparently pressed down on a "rocker" switch while the family's 1992 Mercury Sable was left running while parked in front of their house Saturday afternoon. The window rose so fast that her choking wasn't noticed by her 8- and 10-year-old half brothers playing in the rear of the station wagon.
          Sarah's death comes five months after Congress passed new requirements for automakers regarding electric windows. Provisions in the 2005 transportation bill mandate lever switches, said Janette Fennell of Kids and Cars.
          "There is still no date-certain when this will go into effect," said Fennell, who launched a national campaign against rocker and toggle switches in 2003. "The automakers come back and say ladies with long fingernails in their focus groups don't like lever switches."
          Fennell said lever switches and auto-reverse mechanisms - in which closing windows stop and retract on contact with hard objects - are standard in Europe and Japan. While the top U.S. automakers include these safety features in cars bound for Europe, they typically are not options in domestic models, she said.
          The group estimates that power-accessory strangulation accounted for 3 percent of the 700 nontraffic auto fatalities involving children 15 and younger in the U.S. from 2000 to 2004.