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No one thinks it can happen to them, but Texas ranks #1 when it comes to children dying in hot cars. The Stuyvesant family shares their terrifying story to help raise awareness and prevent hot car tragedies.Watch Show:Too Many Children Die in Sweltering Cars, and a New Push Aims to Find a Fix
Late last month, at a news conference in Washington, Miles Harrison tearfully related how he had caused the death of his son, Chase, in 2008.
He was there to promote the Hot Cars Act of 2019, but he had told this story many times before: to the court that tried him for manslaughter, and to Gene Weingarten for a Pulitzer-winning article in The Washington Post in 2009 that helped alert the world to how children can overheat and die in vehicles.
After losing a child, a Cape Coral family wants to help prevent future tragedies
It's a little device with a big purpose.Payton's Charm uses the latest in aerospace technology to help protect children from being left in hot vehicles.Payton's Charm detects life in a vehicle, and will notify you on your cell phone if the conditions become too hot and dangerous inside. This device is particularly special to one Cape Coral family. The McKinnon family is one that's full of laughter and love. But, they're a family with a missing piece.OPINION: Toddler’s death in hot car calls for compassion, not outrage
There are no words. There are no words for the ache in every parent’s heart when they read a headline about a child dying in a hot car. There are no words for that deep, sinking feeling that hits you right in the gut when the thought jumps into your mind: What if it was my child? What if it was me?
Hot-car deaths can reflect a brain malfunction
"A horrific death like this strikes me not as criminally negligent parenting, but as an unusually tragic malfunction of the brain." She was 18 months old, the news stories tell us, the daughter of married parents in their mid-thirties. She perished on a warm April Monday afternoon in a Glendale apartment complex, shut inside the family’s four-door sedan. Left behind, the reporters explain. Forgotten by her family. Exposed to the car’s steadily rising heat “for at least a few hours,” according to Glendale police.
