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Texas boy invents device to prevent hot car deaths
Bishop Curry looks for ways to fix the world. For an 11-year-old boy, he's unusually curious about big-picture problems, his dad says — from natural disasters to civil rights. And he's always loved to tinker. That's why it wasn't a surprise when Bishop, after seeing an upsetting local news report about a 6-month-old who died when left in a hot car, resolved to make sure something like that never happened again. "I was like, 'This would be my one-way shot to actually helping people,'" Bishop told NBC News.
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Hot Car Deaths: Scientists Detail Why Parents Forget Their Children
On an average day, Kristie Reeves-Cavaliero didn’t need to set an alarm clock. Her hungry one-year-old daughter Sophia Rayne “Ray Ray” Cavaliero was more than enough to get her out of bed at 5 a.m. But on the day Ray Ray died, the infant slept through her usual early-morning feeding. “I glanced at the clock, and it was flashing ‘9:43,’ and the whole household was late,” Reeves-Cavaliero told NBC News. “It was totally chaotic.”
Hot car deaths: Why parents forget their children
On an average day, Kristie Reeves-Cavaliero didn’t need to set an alarm clock. Her hungry one-year-old daughter Sophia Rayne “Ray Ray” Cavaliero was more than enough to get her out of bed at 5 a.m. But on the day Ray Ray died, the infant slept through her usual early-morning feeding. “I glanced at the clock, and it was flashing ‘9:43,’ and the whole household was late,” Reeves-Cavaliero told NBC News. “It was totally chaotic.” While her husband Brett frantically got ready for work, Reeves-Cavaliero dressed Ray Ray. “We both gave her a hug and a kiss and told her we loved her, and she waved goodbye to me,” Reeves-Cavaliero said.
It could happen to you
Since 1994, 804 children have died from heat-related illnesses in cars in the United States, according to Kids and Cars, an advocacy center that conducts research on car-related dangers surrounding child. An average of 37 children die each year after being left in a vehicle.
Undoubtedly, there have been cases where parents intentionally left a child in a vehicle to die, or were somehow negligent. The sad truth is, however, that in the haste of their day, some have honestly forgotten the child was still strapped in the back seat.
