Don't let it happen to you: seven ways to prevent hot car deaths
Editor’s note: This story was very first published in July 2015.
It’s a story that happens all too often. This week a South Florida duo left behind their baby in the car and found the child unresponsive an hour later. The child later died.
After returning from the grocery store, the parents began unloading the shopping bags from the car while their 11-month-old baby sat in the backseat. When they finished, they went back into the house. By the time they realized the baby was missing, it was too late.
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“This was a child that was unknowingly left there and everyone else thought someone brought in the baby,” says Janette Fennell, president and founder of Kids and Cars, a nonprofit focused on improving child safety around cars.
“I feel very strongly they are failures of memory and not failures of love.”
The child is the ninth to die after being left in a car in 2015. By this time last year, nineteen children had died in hot cars and seven hundred have died over the past twenty years. Most of the children are mistakenly forgotten. Some of the children crawl into the car without the parents’ skill and get stuck. And, a puny percentage of children die because their parents believe it’s safe to leave them.
Infants and toddlers are most at risk—87 percent of children who have died in hot cars are under age Three.
“It is fairly dangerous for children and infants as they don’t have as excellent of an capability to regulate their temperature,” says Dr. Richard Saladino, chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. “If the outside temperature [is] 90, temperatures [in the car] can increase from eighty degrees to one hundred thirty degrees in ten to fifteen minutes.”
This warmth causes the core figure temperature to increase to one hundred six degrees, leading to fever stoke.
“The temperatures rise very quickly, rise to such extremes where the assets can no longer compensate,” says Dr. Amy Sniderman, pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children’s.
7 tips for preventing hot car-related deaths of children
Don't let it happen to you: seven ways to prevent hot car deaths
Editor’s note: This story was very first published in July 2015.
It’s a story that happens all too often. This week a South Florida duo left behind their baby in the car and found the child unresponsive an hour later. The child later died.
After returning from the grocery store, the parents began unloading the shopping bags from the car while their 11-month-old baby sat in the backseat. When they finished, they went back into the house. By the time they realized the baby was missing, it was too late.
Hot car deaths are spiking; here's how to rescue a child
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“This was a child that was unknowingly left there and everyone else thought someone brought in the baby,” says Janette Fennell, president and founder of Kids and Cars, a nonprofit focused on improving child safety around cars.
“I feel very strongly they are failures of memory and not failures of love.”
The child is the ninth to die after being left in a car in 2015. By this time last year, nineteen children had died in hot cars and seven hundred have died over the past twenty years. Most of the children are mistakenly forgotten. Some of the children crawl into the car without the parents’ skill and get stuck. And, a puny percentage of children die because their parents believe it’s safe to leave them.
Infants and toddlers are most at risk—87 percent of children who have died in hot cars are under age Trio.
“It is fairly dangerous for children and infants as they don’t have as fine of an capability to regulate their temperature,” says Dr. Richard Saladino, chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. “If the outside temperature [is] 90, temperatures [in the car] can increase from eighty degrees to one hundred thirty degrees in ten to fifteen minutes.”
This fever causes the core figure temperature to increase to one hundred six degrees, leading to warmth stoke.
“The temperatures rise very quickly, rise to such extremes where the figure can no longer compensate,” says Dr. Amy Sniderman, pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children’s.