Test Drive a Car for Mom - Fight Breast Cancer

JeanneSager — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:27:00 GMT

If the family car is sputtering, now may be a better time than you think to go price out a new one. And, no, this is not a "let's drive the economy" speech.

Ford has teamed up with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the company will be putting $20 toward the breast cancer fight for every test drive taken by families between now and June 1 (up to $1 million).

That's it. You don't have to buy one (although, of course, they want you to!). You just have to take the kids down to the dealership, strap them in the back and see how Ford fares at turning out family cars.

If nothing else, do it honor of Mom this Mother's Day - statistically, the chances she will end up with breast cancer are one in eight (higher if another member of the family has it). Find out what you have to do here and get driving.

Boy Injured Car Surfing on Mom's Ford

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:54:00 GMT

This is one of those awful stories in which parents did something so reckless that you want to mercilessly berate them--but you can't because they have already learned their lesson the very hard way.

In this case, a Utah mother discovered that car surfing is not the best way to bond with your kids. The mother of a 8-year-old and a 10-year-old son routinely let her kids take a ride on the outside of her Ford Expedition while she drove around the block at about 5 mph. The kids would stand on the running board, and hold onto the sideview mirror and the handles inside the car.

This was all fun and games until her son took a fall as she went over a speed bump. He had to be flown to a hospital, where he was treated for critical head injuries. He is now in stable condition. His mother has been charged with child abuse.

As horrible as this accident was, it could have been much worse. A report from 2000 found that nearly 500 people were killed car surfing over a five-year period.

Photo: Mochinbach/Flickr

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