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An epidemic of children dying in hot cars: a tragedy that can be prevented
I have been studying the brain and memory since 1980, but I was baffled when a news reporter asked me in 2004 how parents can forget that their children are in the car with them. It seemed incomprehensible that parents could leave a child in a car and then go about their daily activities, as their child dies of hyperthermia in a car that reaches scorching temperatures.
Leaving A Child In A Hot Car Is A Tragedy That Could Happen To Anyone
As we focus on child safety tips this summer, one of the most dangerous incidents happens in something we use everyday: a car. 37 children die every year from being left in a hot vehicle in easily-preventing accidents. Vice President of Kids And Cars Susan Auriemma gives us an in-depth look at the issue of vehicle safety and accident prevention.
What You Need to Know About Backup Cameras
Backup cameras are more than just a cool feature: They can be lifesavers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is making those cameras mandatory, and for good reason: The agency wants to help prevent the 210 fatalities and 15,000 injuries caused each year by backover crashes.
Don't Leave Them Kids Alone: State Lawmakers Target Parents
Parents who fear the judgment of neighbors if they leave their kids alone at home or in a car may soon have more than a "tsk tsk" to worry about in Rhode Island.
Hot-car deaths, Tragedy or crime?
I've never met Wade Naramore, the suspended circuit jodge from Garland County who's pleaded innoicent to negligently leaving his 17-month-old son, Thomas, to die in superheated car last July.
