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Mother warns parents after 9-month-old dies in 'hot car' on 66-degree-day
For Raelyn Balfour of Charlottesville, the idea of forgetting her baby in the backseat of a hot car was unthinkable. "I had heard of stories of this happening to other parents, and I'm like, 'That's an irresponsible parent, there's no way that you can do that,'" she said. "Until it happened to me." Balfour says other people considered her a great parent. And she was known for her attention to detail. While serving with the Army in Iraq, she was able to manage big-budget projects while accounting for every penny. But on March 30, 2007, she made a mistake she's had to live with ever since. "I still ask myself every day -- how could I leave him, how could I forget him?" Balfour said.
Carbon monoxide poses greater and greater risks
Few deaths inspire more sympathy than the insidious, highly preventable kinds that quietly took the lives of a Passaic mother and her two young children last January as they tried to stay warm inside a parked car while its engine kept running. Tragically, snow clogged the tailpipe as Sashalynn Rosa’s husband shoveled snow around them. In time, poisonous carbon monoxide leaked into the car, and the 23-year-old mom, her daughter Saniyah, 3, and son, Messiah, 1, all drifted off to sleep and perished.
Family Shares Hot Car Survival Story with Donna Terrell
Many of you remember the Judge Wade Naramore story in Hot Springs. An entire community was shaken when the judge forgot and left his son, Thomas, in a hot car. Thomas died that day. We know there are situations where people knowingly walk away and leave a child in a hot car, but Judge Naramore said, he forgot Thomas was there. Eric Styvusant knows what that is like. The same thing happened to him. He forgot, he got sidetracked and left his son Michael in the car on a hot day. It is a big mistake that can add up to a "life sentence" of guilt.
Could a bill that removes liability for breaking into a hot car to rescue a child, pet save lives?
The weather may be cooling off, but it's still possible for children and pets to die from being left in a hot car. One Dallas legislator hopes to make it easier for people to intervene, and possibly save a life. Texas leads the nation in deaths of children in hot cars. Seven of the 34 hot car deaths this year occurred in Texas. That number is up from 24 last year, and 31 in 2014. The latest incident happened Friday in Mississippi, according to noheastroke.org, which tracks those deaths.
Child's death in car in Dayton coincides with call for new safety measure
The 2017 GMC Acadia comes equipped with a system reminding drivers to check the rear seat. I was just a few blocks from the house when I remembered I no longer lived there. I had recently moved to a place just a few miles from my previous residence. But on this particular afternoon, my mental navigation system seemed to be on autopilot, directing me toward my old house. I put it down to advancing age. But I now realize I may have experienced a variation on a mental process that results, with terrible frequency, in parents or other caregivers leaving children locked in automobiles to die.
