Law pending to protect kids from cars backing up Posted on Monday, Jul. 23, 2007 Law pending to protect kids from cars backing up By DIANA MOSKOVITZ Arden Rosenfeld was walking home from a neighbor's house, her daughter Veronica scampering a few steps ahead. Suddenly a Lincoln Town Car backed out of a driveway, running over the 2-year-old as her horrified mother watched. Veronica died shortly after the accident. ''I'd never heard of anything like this until it happened to my family,'' Rosenfeld said of the 2005 accident.