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Statement from Victims’ Families Read by Senator Blumenthal During Consideration of the HOT CARS Act
Statement from Victims’ Families Read by Senator Blumenthal During July 10th, 2019 Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee During Consideration of the HOT CARS Act of 2019
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Children’s book puts tough message into tiny hands, and it was inspired by one couple’s tragic loss
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 produced by Arkansas Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Center. The book was dreamed up after Hot Springs Juvenile Court Judge Wade Naramore and his wife, Ashley, called the Injury Prevention Center with the idea of creating a program for hot-car safety.
Texas Couple Whose Son Survived Hot Car Fights For Mandatory Technology To Prevent Tragedy
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. It was a call his wife Michelle said she’ll never forget. “I could hear Eric screaming in the background and he kept yelling, ‘I forgot him, I forgot him’.”
Bill would require warning for children left in hot cars as number of deaths rises
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 of 2019, which was recently introduced in the House, would require an audible vehicle warning that would alert drivers to someone in the back seat if the engine is turned off. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, who's also a contender in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary race for president, introduced the bill. A similar bill that was introduced in Congress in 2017 failed. "No child should endure the tragedy of dying while trapped in a hot vehicle," he said. "The unfortunate reality is that even good, loving and attentive parents can get distracted."
