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After losing a child, a Cape Coral family wants to help prevent future tragedies
It's a little device with a big purpose.Payton's Charm uses the latest in aerospace technology to help protect children from being left in hot vehicles.Payton's Charm detects life in a vehicle, and will notify you on your cell phone if the conditions become too hot and dangerous inside. This device is particularly special to one Cape Coral family. The McKinnon family is one that's full of laughter and love. But, they're a family with a missing piece.Are keyless ignitions putting you at risk?
Could a convenient feature in new cars be putting you and your family at risk?This year, 91 percent of new cars will have a keyless ignition. The push button start is now responsible for more carbon monoxide deaths in Florida than anywhere else in America.
OPINION: Toddler’s death in hot car calls for compassion, not outrage
There are no words. There are no words for the ache in every parent’s heart when they read a headline about a child dying in a hot car. There are no words for that deep, sinking feeling that hits you right in the gut when the thought jumps into your mind: What if it was my child? What if it was me?
Hot-car deaths can reflect a brain malfunction
"A horrific death like this strikes me not as criminally negligent parenting, but as an unusually tragic malfunction of the brain." She was 18 months old, the news stories tell us, the daughter of married parents in their mid-thirties. She perished on a warm April Monday afternoon in a Glendale apartment complex, shut inside the family’s four-door sedan. Left behind, the reporters explain. Forgotten by her family. Exposed to the car’s steadily rising heat “for at least a few hours,” according to Glendale police.
Millions of vehicles have unexpected, dangerous front blind zone
Millions of popular vehicles have a hidden blind spot that puts children at an increased risk of being injured or killed. That large blind zone, located directly in front of the vehicles, has contributed to hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, according to safety advocates who are now trying to warn consumers. “Can you even imagine killing your own child because you couldn’t see them?” asked Janette Fennell, president and founder of KidsAndCars.org, an organization that tracks vehicle-related accidents involving children. “I think very few people understand that this blind zone exists, and there’s a huge danger when these vehicles start moving forward.” KidsAndCars has been tracking the emergence and rapid increase of what it calls “frontover” accidents: accidents involving children who are struck while they are in front of a slow-moving vehicle.
