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How 4 technologies designed to prevent hot car deaths work
More than 800 children have died from heatstroke in hot cars since 1990, including 12 so far this year, according to Kids and Cars, a nonprofit focused on children’s safety. The organization is working with lawmakers to put a stop to these preventable deaths. Last week Representatives Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Peter King (R-N.Y.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) reintroduced the Hot Cars Act to ensure that an alert system is standard in every car to prevent these tragedies. "If there are technologies that can prevent that kind of tragedy, we should just do it right away," Schakowsky told ABC News. There are several devices already on the market that are designed to prevent hot car deaths. "Good Morning America" tried out four different technologies: a car seat with built-in technology; an alert system already in some General Motors cars; a sensor system that can be put in a car seat; and a popular traffic app.
Gamblers leave their kids in cars almost everywhere there are casinos
The 4-year-old girl, in her pink coat and leggings, had been sitting in the Silverado truck outside the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore for nearly seven hours on Thanksgiving night before two customers spotted her. It was 4:48 in the morning, the temperature had dropped into the mid-40s, and security officers decided they needed to break into the truck. Police took the cold, hungry, shoeless girl to a hospital for an examination and a bowl of cereal. Casino security officers set out to find her mother. Guerra Perez was playing a slot machine, the officers reported. Handcuffed and charged with neglect on that November 2015 morning, the 22-year-old became another in a string of Marylanders accused of abandoning a child while gambling at a casino As opportunities to gamble in Maryland have expanded, so has a problem associated with casinos everywhere: the neglect and abandonment of children and other vulnerable people. With the opening of the state's sixth casino in December — the giant MGM National Harbor in Prince George's County — Maryland is among the country's most saturated gambling markets.
Lawmakers Urge Auto Industry to Add Hot Car Death Prevention
Thirty-two; the number of children who died after being left in hot cars in North Carolina over the last 26 years. Overall, 800 children have died nationwide since 1990 from heatstroke after being left in a hot car. Members of Congress, safety advocates and parents was to prevent the next one from happening. KidsandCars.org, a website dedicated to providing education, solutions and data surrounding the deaths of children in or near unattended cars, keeps track of hot car death. NC ranks 6th in the nation with 32. Texas leads with 113 and Mississippi is ranked 15th with 18 deaths. One of those Mississippi deaths, the three-month-old grandson of Dr. Norman Collins.
A Locked Car Can Prevent Child Heatstroke Death
Two more children have died in hot cars this year, bringing the total to nine. The latest victims were a pair of toddlers from a Fort Worth, Texas-area town. The 16-month-old boy and 2-year-old girl were found unresponsive after allegedly locking themselves in a vehicle on accident. Most heatstroke deaths occur when caregivers forget a sleeping or quiet child in the backseat, but playing in a car can lead to the same tragedy. Local woman takes 'Hot Car Act' to Washington
Taking her cause to the nation's capitol after losing her daughter in a hot car death, a Lowcountry woman is heading to Washington to take a stand. Deona Bien is working to make sure no other parent has to feel that sorrow by bringing the Hot Car Act of 2017 to lawmakers.
