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KidsAndCars Canada Trumping Up Awareness for Child Safety
Injury Board member John McKiggan, of Nova Scotia-based Arnold Pizzo McKiggan, was recently interviewed on Canada’s CBC News about the dangers of motor vehicles and his efforts to educate the public on rollover accidents involving children through the nonprofit organization KidsAndCars Canada.
Three more children die in hot cars
Three more children have died of heat stroke after being unknowingly left in hot cars from Aug. 22-25, reports Kids and Car Safety, a national nonprofit child safety organization working to prevent injuries and deaths of children in and around motor vehicles.
HCA Nurse Becomes National Child Safety Advocate After Personal Tragedy
Few parents anticipate tragedy in these times, but for many children warm weather can lead to vehicle-related hyperthermia, a very real threat with sometimes fatal results. Deona "Dee" Ryan, RN, CLC, LNC, director of family services at HCA’s Summerville Medical Center, knows this first hand. In 2004, her one year-old daughter, Aslyn, died of hyperthermia after a baby-sitter left her in a vehicle unattended.
Campaign warns parents never to leave a child in a hot car
"We have a lot more work to do,” Strickland said as he and others sought to raise awareness for a national “Where’s Baby? Look Before You Lock” campaign.
Combating Children's Heatstroke Deaths in Cars
In a six-day period ending August 7, eight children in four states died inside hot cars. As the inside temperatures climbed, the children's core body temperatures rose to lethal levels.
