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New law goes into effect to help save the lives of children trapped in hot cars
Authorities say the inside of a car can heat up and become deadly for a child in as little as 20 minutes. According to Kids and Car Safety, children have suffered heatstroke inside cars when the outside temperature was 60 degrees.
Op-ed: Can parents really forget kids in cars?
How can loving, attentive parents have such an incomprehensible lapse of memory? To forget a child and leave him or her all day in a hot car seems unfathomable and, to many, unacceptable.
I, too, left my child in a hot car
I left my daughter in my car on a hot summer day. It was in July 2007, and I remember that day as if it were yesterday.
Simple reminder can save a child's life
Erin Wiesner and her baby daughter, Kathleen, demonstrate how to use a stuffed animal toy to serve as a reminder that a child is left in the back seat when leaving a vehicle Wednesday at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence.
Autopsy says Georgia toddler died of hyperthermia, calls it homicide
A Georgia man is facing murder charges after leaving his 22-month-old son strapped in a car seat in the family's SUV for seven hours on a day last week when temperatures climbed to the high 80s, according to an updated arrest warrant released Wednesday.