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A mother's mission to prevent child deaths in hot cars
Deona Bien is the Director of Women and Children Services at Trident Health and is also the Vice President of the nonprofit, Kids and Car Safety.
I Left My Baby in a Hot Car: One Mom Shares Her Tragic Story
"Unlike some parents I was absolutely blessed to have the opportunity to hold my son one last time and tell him goodbye, and I made a promise to him that no matter how painful it would be to go through my story over and over and over again if just one parent listens and understood about the dangers and educated themselves and took the prevention measures for vehicles ... his death would be worth it. No parent wants to feel like I do every day, to be responsible for your own child's death." - Lyn Balfour
What should you do if you see a child in a hot car?
In a summer punctuated by horrifying incidents of children dying in hot cars, one state will now allow bystanders to break into a car if they see a kid inside who they believe is in danger.
How technology could help prevent kids' deaths in hot cars
The news is always tragic, and seems to happen far too often: a child left in a hot car is found dead of heat stroke when a caregiver forgot or did not know they were there.
Should the government step in to prevent hot car deaths?
While the case of the Georgia father accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son to die in a hot car continues to grip the nation, it has also sparked a debate about whether more could be done to prevent the accidental deaths of children from heatstroke inside a car.
