PEDESTRIAN safety experts are alarmed by news the Hummer motor vehicle has arrived in Australia without a reversing safety system.
The Hummer H3, a smaller version of the original military Humvee troop carrier, is on sale in Australia for the first time. Its square-bodied styling, small windows and high stance give it particularly poor rear window vision.
"What would you expect," Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby, said yesterday. "These driveway and school accidents involving small children are just shocking and everything that can be done must be done to avoid them.
"I blame the Federal Government for not mandating reversing cameras in these types of vehicles."
GM Premium Brands' answer to the problem is to offer a set of rear parking sensors as a dealer-fit accessory for $455 plus fitting.
"We understand how important this is as a safety feature but unfortunately it is not available in any form out of the factory," the director for GM Premium Brands in Australia, Parveen Batish, said.
"We are talking to GM about this and there may be some movement for the 2008 cars but at the moment we have done the best we can by ensuring it is available as a local accessory."
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