Kids are dying in hot cars at an alarming rate; safety agency tweets for awareness
Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 a.m. ET Aug. 21, 2019 | Updated 12:09 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2019 The numbers are sickening: 10 children dead in 20 days. They were little girls and boys who died in hot cars just in the last few weeks, a growing crisis that’s perplexing in part because experts […]
Read moreMother of boy killed in hot car works to prevent more tragedies
Updated: 9:24 PM EDT Aug 13, 2019 – Greg Fox Reporter Play Video Last year saw a record number of hot car deaths: 51. So far this year, 32 kids across the country have died, including a little boy in South Florida a couple of weeks ago. Now, parents of victims are taking action. WESH 2 […]
Read moreTechnology to save kids in hot cars exists. So why isn’t it in every vehicle?
“This needs to be standard, not optional, on all vehicles. What we know is when given the choice, parents don’t believe they need this technology.” The Hot Cars Act of 2019 would mandate all new cars to be equipped with a reminder system for drivers to check for passengers in the back. So far in […]
Read moreHyundai to Expand Child-Monitoring Systems to More Models by 2022
See what Consumer Reports has to say about Hyundai’s Rear Occupant Alert HERE.
Read moreFather of child who died in hot car wants Congress to pass ‘Hot Cars Act’
BY NATHAN BACA, WJLA THURSDAY, JULY 25TH 2019 PURCELLVILLE, Va. (WJLA) — Chase Harrison would be 12 now. “His smile. He really had a good-natured way about him for a kid that came from an orphanage,” his mother, Carol Harrison, said. Chase was newly adopted from Russia. His father, Miles, wasn’t used to the daycare […]
Read moreConsumer Reports Urges Congress to Pass the ‘Hot Cars Act of 2019’
PRESS RELEASE July 22, 2019 Rear seat child detection and alert systems will save lives, should be required on all new cars, says Consumer Reports. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports called on lawmakers in Congress today to support the Hot Cars Act of 2019, bipartisan legislation recently introduced in both the House and Senate that would […]
Read moreThese new car safety systems are in place to prevent hot car child deaths
Watch video report at: https://wjla.com/features/7-on-your-side/investigations/new-car-safety-systems-prevent-hot-car-child-deaths by Nathan Baca, ABC7Friday, July 19th 2019 GAITHERSBURG, Md. (ABC7) — 21 children died nationwide already this year from heatstroke in cars. The average is 38 deaths annually, according to the tracking group. “If you even pop into autopilot for a moment on your way to daycare when you’re going […]
Read moreChildren’s book puts tough message into tiny hands, and it was inspired by one couple’s tragic loss
by Jerry McLeod | Today at 7:06 a.m.0COMMENTS Photo by Cary Jenkins, Democrat-Gazette Thomas Cooper Naramore died tragically on July 24, 2015, but his memory will live on through a new children’s board book. Not Even a Minute: A Story About Preventing Hot Car Heatstroke, written by Sarah Tollett and Joe Schaffner, who also did the illustrations, was […]
Read moreNorth Texas Couple Whose Son Survived Being Left In Hot Car Fights For Mandatory Technology To Prevent Tragedy
By Gilma AvalosJuly 5, 2019 at 7:24 pm Watch video report at : https://cbsloc.al/2FQqOi3 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Most parents believe leaving their child locked in a hot car could never happen to them… until it does. It happened to Eric Stuyvesant. “To this day I can’t fathom how I would’ve left him in that car,” he said. […]
Read moreBill would require warning for children left in hot cars as number of deaths rises
By MATTHEW VANN Jul 1, 2019, 5:38 PM ET WATCH What happens to your body in a hot car? As summer temperatures rise, car safety advocacy groups hoping to draw attention to hot car deaths will be aided by a bill intended to equip new vehicles with technology that detects sleeping children in hot cars. The HOT CARS Act […]
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