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Hospital: Simple technique can help prevent hot car deaths
Kansas City's St. Luke's North Hospital has a technique it hopes parents will use to make sure their child is never forgotten inside a car.
SLNH Donation Aims to Reduce Heat-Related Death in Kids
St. Lukes North Hospital Newsletter
Learn more: 2014-07-01-StLukesNorth-newsletter
New law goes into effect to help save the lives of children trapped in hot cars
Authorities say the inside of a car can heat up and become deadly for a child in as little as 20 minutes. According to Kids and Car Safety, children have suffered heatstroke inside cars when the outside temperature was 60 degrees.
Op-ed: Can parents really forget kids in cars?
How can loving, attentive parents have such an incomprehensible lapse of memory? To forget a child and leave him or her all day in a hot car seems unfathomable and, to many, unacceptable.
I, too, left my child in a hot car
I left my daughter in my car on a hot summer day. It was in July 2007, and I remember that day as if it were yesterday.