There But For The Grace...

[tapati]

Mom recalls death of baby she left in car.Nationwide, about thirty six children a year die when they are left in a car and their bodies are overheated as a result. In some of these cases, the switch to a rear-facing infant seat in the back seat of the car makes it all too easy for tired, over-stressed parents to forget the child is with them that

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[mariadkins]

Keeping an object in the car seat, such as a stuffed toy. When the child is buckled in, place the object where the driver will notice it when he or she is leaving the vehicle.

That will work with an infant, but not a bigger child. As I'm sure you know.

even if the windows are partially open or with the engine running and the air conditioning on.

It's illegal to park a car with the engine running in Kentucky.

Fayette County also has a law that prohibits leaving a child under the age of 8 in a car for more than 15 minutes. That law provides for a penalty of up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $250, or both.

They're trying to pass a law here making it illegal to leave a child in a car - especially since the horrible death of baby Brian Puckett in July 1999. He was 18 months old. That day, it was 115* (not counting the humidity, not counting the heat inside the car). His babysitter left locked inside the car in his carseat to go clothes shopping. Someone heard him crying, but by the time the police got there, it was too late.

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[mariadkins]

That law provides for a penalty of up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $250, or both.

I meant to say that this is nowhere near stern enough.

Wake up call

[equani_tsula]

Now that I work as a cart pusher at WalMart - in New Mexico where it is already easily in the 90s in the afternoon and often hotter, and of course, even hotter inside a car - I am constantly saddened and shocked to see children, babies, dogs, and even elderly left in the car while someone goes in to shop. Often the vehicle has an out of state license. We get a lot of tourists here who come for our big lake, hot springs, and other attractions. So maybe I can forgive someone from Michegan for not realizing how hot it really is here, and how quickly a car becomes a furnace - but what is the excuse for folks from Texas or other parts of New Mexico