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Look before you lock: A message every parent needs to hear as summer approaches
Kids and Cars is leading a national push for parents to "look before you lock" in an effort to prevent parents from accidentally locking their young children inside their car.
How to keep from leaving a child in a hot car
Throughout a 16-day-period last month, seven children in the United States died after being left in a hot car. The sharp increase has Kids and Cars organization stepping up its efforts to ensure child safety.
Deaths in hot cars claim 8 children so far this spring
At least eight children -- mostly babies and toddlers younger than age 2 -- have died this spring after being left by caregivers or trapped in hot cars.
Seven kids left in car die of heat stroke
Summer hasn’t even arrived, and yet already this year seven children have died of heat stroke after being left in vehicles.
Keying in on kids may prevent them from being left in hot vehicles
When my youngest son– now 6– was about 9 months old, I tucked him into his car seat and the two of us headed to the drug store. It took less than 10 minutes to get there. I went in to the store, searched up and down the aisles looking for what I needed, made my purchase and went back to the car….where my son sat in his car seat, happily chewing on his foot. I dropped my bag and yelped. I’d totally forgotten he was with me.
