Mom Christi Carrano is pushing to help implement federal legislation on ice cream truck safety laws after losing her son in an incident in Wallingford, Connecticut.
In honor of her son, Christi Carrano is fighting for federal ice cream truck safety laws. Carrano lost her beloved son, Tristan Barhorst, in 2020 when the 10-year-old was struck by a car and killed after buying a treat from an ice cream truck in Wallingford, Connecticut. 'He was an old soul. He was kind of empathetic, loving, thoughtful, selfless, smart, incredibly funny, extremely athletic, thankful and creative,' Carrano told Fox News Digital.
Tristan ordered his ice cream first — and once he had it, he was crossing the street by himself to return to the house when a car going 40 mph in a 25 mph zone struck him. The driver, a teenager, had no charges pressed against him by the family. The mother took her tragedy and has been using it to spread awareness to help protect other children from a similar misfortune.
Tristan's Law' requires all traffic to stop 10 feet in front of or behind an ice cream truck when the front crossing arm is extended. The law also prohibits trucks from selling ice cream on any road with a speed limit greater than 25 miles per hour or within 500 feet of an elementary or middle school on school days. Carrano is urging federal action to enact a similar law. Carrano said she has done her research and ice cream truck incidents are underreported.
We only have a small number of ice cream truck-related incidents in our database,' Rollins said. 'That's just the tip of the iceberg.' Rollins said a big issue with gathering information is that the reporting neglects 'non-traffic' incidents. 'We're missing a huge portion of cases because a lot of these things happen in parking lots and driveways and other off-roadway locations,' she said.
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