2018 Hot Car Deaths

[Ariana]

Just to add:

It is also harder in the winter for your body to go into hypothermia because your body temperature stays relatively high and the temperature inside a car would never get that cold to not bring on major shivering which elevates body temps enough to keep you alive. It is just so much harder to die of hypothermia in a shelter in winter....remember Leo’s character climbing inside a horse in the Revenant during a snow storm.

Lots of great points made here about kids today and I agree with nannyde idea of parents having alarms on their phones. My husband has an alarm every day telling him to pick up the kids off the bus. It has a double alarm safety so it goes off 30 minutes before and then 5 minutes before. It is so easy to set this up!

[Cat Herder]

https://www.kidsandcars.org/child_story/bryce-balfour/

well the first one is awful.

Mom takes sick lethargic baby to daycare without having any contact with him before leaving the house. On the phone while driving. Baby "dressed warmly". Car seat not positioned in middle of back seat. Provider calls cell phone but phone not checked. And on and on

I'm having a hard time believing her story. Very hard.

It really is a hard one to read. I had to read it a few times, there were so many issues.

The previous day she forgot to pick up the oldest and went home. "Now it is important to note for routine sake that on my way home from work on Wednesday, I picked up Bryce and arrived at home realizing that I hadn’t picked up Jarrett. Simply because it was a change in our routine."

The provider was not told to call her work number, just her personal cell. "I answered calls on my work phone and work cell phone as I normally left my personal cell phone in my purse. People close to me knew to call the work phones if they really needed to get in contact with me. Around 2, I picked up my personal cell phone to get a number out of it and saw I had a missed call."

I can't imagine what the provider felt. The story never addresses it. She did call, the child might have been saved, but she was given incomplete contact information.

[Mike]

Even happening here in Canada.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/three-year-old-boy-found-dead-in-burlington-police-investigating/102217/

[Cat Herder]

Even happening here in Canada.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...gating/102217/

It is disheartening to know there will be a couple to a few a week until November.

Every year.

Next year, too.

[Ariana]

Even happening here in Canada.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...gating/102217/

Whats disturbing about this is that it isn’t even super hot here yet, we are still in spring time weather

[Mike]

Whats disturbing about this is that it isn’t even super hot here yet, we are still in spring time weather

I know. As temperatures rise, deaths will be quicker, and therefore more often.

I know if I EVER see a child or animal in a car alone and it looks like they're getting hot, I'd just smash a window. If the child or animal looks ok, I'd wait by the car for a bit or go inside to have someone paged, depending where the car is. I'd never just walk away and assume someone will be right back out.

[Unregistered]

I don't feel bad. Only because I feel many of these were on purpose. I've known many dopey people. Some even on drugs and alcohol. Yet, these people never forgot their kids in a hot car.

By the way, I had a mom do this and I called the police. By where I live, there is a parking lot for a big store. It's visible from where I am but not next door. The mom was always leaving her foster kids there, but bio kid got dropped off every day. I have a feeling she was trying to use the foster state money on her bio child and neglecting the foster kids.

[Ariana]

I know. As temperatures rise, deaths will be quicker, and therefore more often.

I know if I EVER see a child or animal in a car alone and it looks like they're getting hot, I'd just smash a window. If the child or animal looks ok, I'd wait by the car for a bit or go inside to have someone paged, depending where the car is. I'd never just walk away and assume someone will be right back out.

Don’t quote me on it but I think it is illegal to smash someones window even if there is a dog inside. Not sure anyone would press charges but I did read that even the police can’t smash it open? There was a PSA a few years ago warning about it.

[Cat Herder]

Don’t quote me on it but I think it is illegal to smash someones window even if there is a dog inside. Not sure anyone would press charges but I did read that even the police can’t smash it open? There was a PSA a few years ago warning about it.

Legislation is working on that. Scroll up to post 37. They are making it a good Samaritan law.

[Mike]

Legislation is working on that. Scroll up to post 37. They are making it a good Samaritan law.

Good samaritan law or not, if I see a child or animal in a car, I would try to find the adult if there is time, but if time is questionable, I'm smashing.

If somehow I ever forgot a child or animal in a car, I would be happy to come back out and find out someone smashed a window because it was getting hot inside. A window isn't that much to replace. I'd rather come out to see a broken window than a dead child or pet.

[Cat Herder]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/b...e-deputies-say June 04, 2018

"A 9-month-old baby girl is dead Monday after being left in an unattended vehicle for an extended period of time"

"the parents took the baby girl with them on a round of medical appointments for their other two children and returned around 11 a.m. That's when deputies said they forgot the girl in the vehicle."

"One thought the other parent had brought the child into the house. That wasn't the case," the sheriff said.

After realizing the child was not inside the residence, they went to the vehicle, found the baby and called 911."

[Cat Herder]

http://fox59.com/2018/06/04/3-year-o...es-police-say/ JUNE 4, 2018

"Detectives with the Anderson Police Department are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 3-year-old girl who they say may have been inside a car for several hours."

"So far this year, eight hot car deaths have been reported with four others pending coroner confirmation"

[Pestle]

Legislation is working on that. Scroll up to post 37. They are making it a good Samaritan law.

Lots of states already have Good Samaritan laws, don't they? Vermont does.

Here's some practical advice I read on it:

http://qr.ae/TUpRop

[Cat Herder]

Lots of states already have Good Samaritan laws, don't they? Vermont does.

Here's some practical advice I read on it:
http://qr.ae/TUpRop

There are many laws under the umbrella of "good samaritan". These specific ones are about breaking glass, damage to property.

[Pestle]

There are many laws under the umbrella of "good samaritan". These specific ones are about breaking glass, damage to property.

Yeah; this is the one I'm talking about:

http://www.dogingtonpost.com/good-news-vermont-law-allows-citizens-to-save-dogs-from-hot-cars/