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An epidemic of children dying in hot cars: a tragedy that can be prevented
I have been studying the brain and memory since 1980, but I was baffled when a news reporter asked me in 2004 how parents can forget that their children are in the car with them. It seemed incomprehensible that parents could leave a child in a car and then go about their daily activities, as their child dies of hyperthermia in a car that reaches scorching temperatures.
Leaving A Child In A Hot Car Is A Tragedy That Could Happen To Anyone
As we focus on child safety tips this summer, one of the most dangerous incidents happens in something we use everyday: a car. 37 children die every year from being left in a hot vehicle in easily-preventing accidents. Vice President of Kids And Cars Susan Auriemma gives us an in-depth look at the issue of vehicle safety and accident prevention.
Hot-car deaths, Tragedy or crime?
I've never met Wade Naramore, the suspended circuit jodge from Garland County who's pleaded innoicent to negligently leaving his 17-month-old son, Thomas, to die in superheated car last July.
Kids in hot cars bill heading to SC governor
A bill is now heading to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's desk to protect people who break windows to rescue children in hot cars. The bill gives immunity from civil liability for damage to vehicles resulting from someone breaking in to save a child or vulnerable adult.
Car seat alert: Could wearing a winter coat endanger your child?
It's a mistake any parent can easily make in winter: putting your child in a car seat bundled up in their winter coat. And it could be deadly.
