John Caemmerer was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in Williston Park, Nassau County, New York.
[1] Caemmerer worked to increase penalties on drunk drivers while lowering the maximum allowable blood alcohol content from .15 to eventually .10 in New York State.
Many in the Senate feel that Caemmerer's crowning achievement was the passage of the child seat law in 1981.
[3] The Long Island Rail Road's West Side Yard was officially named the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard because Caemmerer obtained funding to construct the facility.
The 1981 Ford Econoline carried ten teenagers, and apparently drove around a flashing railroad crossing gate when the train was not able to stop in time.