BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Alpharetta resident Jenny Harty has called herself a mom on a mission since the brush with death that her family experienced when a logging truck crashed into them in rural Georgia in 2002. The wreck nearly killed their then-five-year-old daughter, Madison . Harty has since been on a successful crusade to boost Georgia’s booster seat laws, and her latest effort is a new children’s book: Francie and Fitz - Booster Buddies .

To understand the book, however, one must hear the back story.

Harty said that her family’s decision to go above and beyond Georgia’s old booster seat laws was crucial.

“My youngest daughter was riding in a booster seat and that smart decision saved her life,” Harty told the AJC and 11Alive. Georgia laws 23 years ago only required children ages f

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