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These new car safety systems are in place to prevent hot car child deaths
Watch video report at: https://wjla.com/features/7-on-your-side/investigations/new-car-safety-systems-prevent-hot-car-child-deaths
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (ABC7) — 21 children died nationwide already this year from heatstroke in cars. The average is 38 deaths annually, according to the tracking group. “If you even pop into autopilot for a moment on your way to daycare when you're going to drop off the baby before going to work, it's all it takes," said Kids In Cars President Janette Fennell.
SC led the nation for kids dying in hot cars. It could happen to any parent, expert warns
How could anyone accidentally leave a child in a hot car? South Carolina led the nation with six children dying in hot vehicles in 2018, the deadliest year in U.S. history for these tragedies, according to noheatstroke.org, a website supported by the National Safety Council. Five of those children were left behind in vehicles by caregivers, according to KidsAndCars.org, a national nonprofit, while the sixth child climbed inside an unlocked car and became trapped.
This year, the grim trend continues. Twenty-one children nationwide have died in hot cars as of July 16, including one in South Carolina.
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
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’.”
