OSCEOLA, Mo. -- A 4-year-old boy died after his mother accidentally ran over him while backing out of their driveway. It happened about noon Thursday off a road just west of Osceola, according to a preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The 30-year-old mother was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe, a type of vehicle with the biggest blind zone. Drake Collins died at a hospital.

Today's Janice Lieberman wrote about the nationwide problem.

"It’s the larger vehicles, the SUVs, minivans and the pickups that have the biggest blind zones. The type of vehicles so many families now use.

"Here’s the typical scenario: a parent says goodbye to their child, gets in the car, checks the mirrors and takes off. The child wanting to say good bye one last time runs after the car and the parent can’t see the child. They have actually named this as “the bye, bye syndrome.”

"Kids and Cars, a nonprofit organization, has been tracking deaths and injuries related to backovers. They say every week two children die from backovers."

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