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Quick facts on automatic window safety and a history of the power window.
Fatalities from automatic car windows are rare; there have been 57 deaths since 1991, according to kidsandcars.org. However, 2,000 injuries were reported from automatic car windows in 2012, and 1,000 of those injuries were children, according to the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Help for the Child Left Behind
Children dying of hyperthermia after being left in parked cars has long been a problem, but a new child safety seat may help solve it.
Laws deal with deaths children left in hot cars
This spring the Alabama Legislature passed the Amiyah White Act to prosecute people who leave children alone in cars. Although the act was only directed at a particular group of people -- paid caretakers who watch adults and care for children in day care situations -- it pointed the spotlight on a tragic problem that crops up every summer.
Children at risk in hot vehicles
Fennell, founder of KidsAndCars.org, fears the voice on the other end will deliver the news that another child has died after being left in a hot vehicle.
A hot day, a parked car — and tragic consequences
In one week in early July, two Canadian toddlers died after being left in hot cars, one in Alberta, one in Ontario. Cases like these happen with frightening—and increasing—regularity: multiple times every summer in Canada, and almost 40 times per year in the U.S.
