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How 4 technologies designed to prevent hot car deaths work
More than 800 children have died from heatstroke in hot cars since 1990, including 12 so far this year, according to Kids and Cars, a nonprofit focused on children’s safety. The organization is working with lawmakers to put a stop to these preventable deaths. Last week Representatives Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Peter King (R-N.Y.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) reintroduced the Hot Cars Act to ensure that an alert system is standard in every car to prevent these tragedies. "If there are technologies that can prevent that kind of tragedy, we should just do it right away," Schakowsky told ABC News. There are several devices already on the market that are designed to prevent hot car deaths. "Good Morning America" tried out four different technologies: a car seat with built-in technology; an alert system already in some General Motors cars; a sensor system that can be put in a car seat; and a popular traffic app.
Backup Cameras Save Lives — the RAA Would Endanger Them
Cameron Gulbransen was accidentally killed at age two after being run over by an automobile without a backup camera.
Bigger Vehicles Create 'Front Over' Deadly Blindspot
Back up cameras help prevent drivers from backing over a child. But many parents might not know that there is also a major blind zone in front of the vehicle and a national safety group says you can pull forward and never see a child. From 1996-2000, there were 24 recorded frontover deaths. That number jumped to 358 between 2006 and 2010. The popularity of bigger vehicles is one reason why. 80 percent of frontover accidents involve SUVS, Vans and pickup trucks.
Gamblers leave their kids in cars almost everywhere there are casinos
The 4-year-old girl, in her pink coat and leggings, had been sitting in the Silverado truck outside the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore for nearly seven hours on Thanksgiving night before two customers spotted her. It was 4:48 in the morning, the temperature had dropped into the mid-40s, and security officers decided they needed to break into the truck. Police took the cold, hungry, shoeless girl to a hospital for an examination and a bowl of cereal. Casino security officers set out to find her mother. Guerra Perez was playing a slot machine, the officers reported. Handcuffed and charged with neglect on that November 2015 morning, the 22-year-old became another in a string of Marylanders accused of abandoning a child while gambling at a casino As opportunities to gamble in Maryland have expanded, so has a problem associated with casinos everywhere: the neglect and abandonment of children and other vulnerable people. With the opening of the state's sixth casino in December — the giant MGM National Harbor in Prince George's County — Maryland is among the country's most saturated gambling markets.
Lawmakers Urge Auto Industry to Add Hot Car Death Prevention
Thirty-two; the number of children who died after being left in hot cars in North Carolina over the last 26 years. Overall, 800 children have died nationwide since 1990 from heatstroke after being left in a hot car. Members of Congress, safety advocates and parents was to prevent the next one from happening. KidsandCars.org, a website dedicated to providing education, solutions and data surrounding the deaths of children in or near unattended cars, keeps track of hot car death. NC ranks 6th in the nation with 32. Texas leads with 113 and Mississippi is ranked 15th with 18 deaths. One of those Mississippi deaths, the three-month-old grandson of Dr. Norman Collins.
