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Cars Stolen with Children Alone Inside
In 2022, Kids and Car Safety has documented over 200 children who were victims of being left alone inside a vehicle that was stolen with them alone inside.
Contrary to what many might believe, children taken during a car theft is not a rare occurrence. And, it happens in even the safest of neighborhoods. Cars are often stolen from gas stations and convenience store parking lots as well as from home driveways.
Pet cat credited with saving Deltona couple from carbon monoxide poisoning
A couple spent hours in their home being sicked by carbon monoxide after accidentally leaving their car running in the garage.
Paul and Leona Jones went out for an early dinner Wednesday evening and came home in the middle of a rainstorm.
They said they just wanted to get into the garage, close the door and get in the home.
"(We) just didn't hear the engine running and I didn't hit the button," Leona Jones said.
School Bus & Bus Stop Safety
TIPS FOR STUDENTS
Walking to the Bus Stop
- If you must walk in the street to your bus stop, walk single file, face traffic and stay as close to the edge of the road as you can.
- Stop and look left, right and then left again if you must cross the street. Do the same thing at all driveways.
How do some parents leave their children behind in hot cars? It’s in the brain.
It’s a news story that conjures horror and disbelief: a child left behind in a hot car, sometimes with fatal consequences. How could any parent, any caregiver, commit such a grievous oversight? How could someone forget a child?
The answer is in the complex ways that the human brain works, according to a new study.
And its author – psychology professor David Diamond, who has studied the phenomenon for more than a decade and testified in court as an expert witness – is calling for manufacturer safeguards to avert other tragedies.
Hot car deaths: Study describes psychological and neural basis of how people make fatal errors
More than 50 children died in hot cars in 2018, making it the deadliest year on record. Many of the cases involve parents who unknowingly left a child behind, often for an entire day. University of South Florida Psychology Professor David Diamond has studied this phenomenon for over a decade and has served as an expert witness on many high-profile cases. In his latest publication, he describes the psychological and neural basis of how responsible people make such fatal errors.
