Nearly two years ago, Angela Jones lost her daughter, three-year-old Charlotte, in a hot car incident. Now, she is advocating for new measures to prevent similar tragedies. FOX 10's Danielle Miller reports.
In August alone, 10 children died of vehicular heatstroke, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. How does this happen? For families who have lost a child to vehicular heatstroke, it’s something they, too, wondered before it happened to them.Children are more susceptible to vehicular heatstroke
About 46% of the time, the caregiver meant to drop the child off at daycare or preschool — more than half of the deaths were children younger than 2. The highest number of child car deaths occurred on Thursdays and Fridays at the end of the workweek.In 10 minutes, the temperature inside a car can rise 20 degrees. It can get as hot as 115 degrees inside a car even if it’s 70 degrees outside.
Always lock your car doors and trunk, year-round, so children can’t get into unattended vehicles.Store car keys out of a child's reach and teach children that a vehicle is not a play area.If you see a child alone in a vehicle, first, you should make sure the child is okay and responsive. If not, call 911 immediately, the NHTSA says:
'Vehicular heatstroke' anything to take away responsibility for ones own actions..
How Embarrassing is it that Adults have to be told NOT to leave children in Hot cars?... SMH
How to keep your kids safe: Be a parent... Get off TikTok and get ur kid out the back seat
I don't get why we still let people leave their houses these days. It's the leading cause of accidents and crime. Everything can be delivered, you really just need a vitamin IV drip. I mean, if it saves one life, why wouldn't you sacrifice for the greater good?
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