In 1998, the day before father's day, tragedy stuck the Baker family of Pocatello, ID. Fourteen-month-old Suzy Aileen Baker, the youngest of six children, was accidentally killed by her father in the family's driveway. Surprisingly, as Inside Edition reports on Monday, July 15, the Bakers' story is not unique. Already this year there have been more than 25 children killed in their driveways. The syndicated newsmagazine reports on driveway accidents around the country and looks at new safety tools that can help prevent such tragedies.

Workmen had asked Mark Baker to move his car out of his driveway. Before doing so, Baker checked around the car, but as he backed up, he heard something very faint. He recalls, "It felt like maybe I had run over something, but I wasn't sure. I got out and there was my little girl, Susie, lying in front of the driver's rear tire." Less than a half-hour later, Suzy was pronounced dead. Similarly, Inside Edition profiles 10-year-old Megan Perrigo of Fory Wayne, IN. Megan's earliest memory, at age two, is being backed over by a neighbor's car. She remembers, "I got stuck up in the wheel…." Megan had literally been folded in half and was stuck in the wheel well. Miraculously, she survived.

"In so many of the cases, it's the parent or close relative that this happens to. I am absolutely shocked at the numbers we're finding," says Janette Fennell, founder of Kids n' Cars. Fennell, whose non-profit agency tries to raise awareness of these types of accidents, explains to Inside Edition, "People don't realize that at two miles an hour, in their own driveway, you've got 4000 pounds coming against 30 or 40 pounds. They don't have a chance." She points to a recent study that says young children could be at a greater risk for death and serious injury in private driveways and parking lots than as occupants of motor vehicles. She informs Inside Edition that, until this year, no government agency kept track of driveway accidents.

Experts claim that the number of driveway accidents is rising alarmingly as more Americans choose to drive larger vehicles. A blind spot behind an SUV or other large vehicles can be twice as long than that of a typical sedan.

Fortunately, help is on the way for drivers. Inside Edition profiles Donnelly Corporation's Video Mirror, which lets drivers keep an eye on what's behind the bumper. The system even has a second camera that monitors activity in the backseat, so drivers can keep their eyes ahead. Inside Edition reports that several auto manufacturers are experimenting with video systems, which may one day become standard equipment.