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Check the Back Seat! Alerts Remind Drivers About Children
As the hot-car death rate remains stubbornly high, new sensors and other reminders are in the works; Nissan to make it's alert a standard feature, a step advocates have encouraged. This year 29 children have died from vehicular heatstroke, on pace to make 2018 one of the deadliest on record, according to KidsAndCars.org, a child-safety advocacy group. Heatstroke is the leading cause of non-crash vehicular deaths for children younger than 15, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.What happens in your brain when kids are left in cars
Parents say they would never, ever forget their child in a car on a hot day. But David Diamond, a professor of psychology and molecular pharmacology and physiology at the University of South Florida who studies memory, warns it could happen to anyone. “Everybody has forgotten to execute a plan. We're just almost always talking about an inanimate object," he said. "People always say, ‘That’s all fine, but we're talking about a child. ... You have to have priority for your child." That's not exactly how your brain thinks about it, even if you want it to.
'How Did I Leave My Child In The Car?' Experts Say It's Easier Than You Might Think
How could a parent forget their child in the car? That is a question people ask every summer as dozens of children die in hot cars, forgotten by their parents. Eric Stuyvesant used to be one of them.
Kansas law will help Good Samaritans prevent children’s deaths in hot cars
What would you do if you saw a small child or animal in distress trapped inside a hot car? Would you know how to help save a life? Recently Kansas joined 20 other states in passing a Good Samaritan law to protect residents of the state from liability if they break into a vehicle to rescue a child, animal or vulnerable adult in distress. Beyond just protecting a these heroes from civil liability, the law more importantly empowers citizens to act when they otherwise might not have.
Mother: When you lose a child to a 'backover' accident, 'you never get over it'
Seven-year-old Gino DiMario, who loved piano lessons and going to church with his family, was dead by the time first responders arrived at his grandparents' home on February 19, 2005. He had been playing in the parking lot when a family member, not noticing the thatch of blond hair behind their bumper, rolled over him in a minivan. He died instantly.
