Apparently you missed the statistical implication that the deaths are correlated with front passenger air bags.
Before front passenger airbags were common, this problem was relativily rare. but as the front air bag became common causing a spike in child deaths of children in the front, legislation required all children under 8 be seated in back and there is a strong correlative relationship with the increase in “forgotten” child deaths.
About half of these deaths result in a prosecution (meaning a prosecutor felt there was enough evidence of negligence to go to trial) and of those prosecutions about 80% result in a conviction. So about 60% of the time either a prosecutor or a jury felt that the death was accidental (truly fogotten) rather than negligent.
I expect a downward trend to develop as technology catches up and alarms or monitors become common to prevent further deaths.
I didn’t miss it, and I do appreciate the facts/statistics you provided.
I think you’ve made a very good case here and you’ve backed it up with a good amount of detail.