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Carmakers to add alerts to prevent child heatstroke deaths
By the 2025 model year, nearly all new vehicles sold in the U.S. will come with electronic alerts to remind people to not leave children behind in the back seats.
Twenty automakers representing 98% of new vehicles sold have agreed to install reminders in an effort to stop heatstroke deaths. So far this year 39 children have died in the U.S. after being left alone in cars during hot weather. The advocacy group Kids and Cars says a record 54 children were killed last year.
Carmakers agree to add rear-seat reminders to prevent deaths in hot cars
More than 50 children died in the U.S. last year after inadvertently being left in hot cars, prompting automakers to voluntarily agree to add back seat occupant reminders to new cars by 2025.
Car manufacturers will add systems to new cars that prompt drivers to check back seats after cars are shut off, as part of an agreement announced Wednesday by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers, which represent domestic and foreign-owned carmakers.
Parents of boy who died in hot car turning grief into action
Eleven years ago, Miles Harrison unintentionally left his baby son, Chase, in the back of his car on a hot day. Miles was charged with involuntary manslaughter, but was eventually found not guilty. Now, he and Carol join the 3rd hour of TODAY to share how they're advocating to change laws and protect children.
Kids are dying in hot cars at an alarming rate; safety agency tweets for awareness
They were little girls and boys who died in hot cars just in the last few weeks, a growing crisis that's perplexing in part because experts say the deaths, many of them at least, are both unintentional and preventable.
Some automakers have deployed technological solutions, but making them standard on all new vehicles appears to depend on a divided Congress rather than regulators.
Mother of boy killed in hot car works to prevent more tragedies
Last year saw a record number of hot car deaths: 51. So far this year, 32 kids across the country have died, including a little boy in South Florida a couple of weeks ago.
Now, parents of victims are taking action. WESH 2 News spoke to one of those parents. A mother said she made one mistake -- one change in her daily routine.
