Md. officials want kids’ hot car deaths to be thing of the past
WASHINGTON — In an effort to spread awareness, state, federal and local safety officials gathered in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Friday — National Heatstroke Prevention Day — to demonstrate the dangers of leaving children locked inside hot cars.
Last year, 31 children died from heatstroke and 15 have already died this year, according to data provided by Prince George’s County Fire & Rescue Service.
In the mock scenario, 911 received a call from a bystander who found a child locked in a hot car. Emergency rescuers responded, hoping to free a child locked in a hot car.
Oh , we live in a world of total ignorance. How in the hell can anyone with a grain of sense or responsibility leave a child in a hot car , or even a car by themselves. If it happens the guardian should be charged with murder or attempted murder , period. Oxon Hill is in P.G. county , I used to live there , that's why I moved , P.G. County , land of the corrupt and ignorant.
Thirty-one children dying in a hot car is a very small number when compared to all the children successfully remembered and taken with the driver.
Despite this past year or so when a couple was accused of intentionally leaving their child in the car.(Hard to imagine anybody would want to face the scrutiny from killing their child that way) It is more sensible to say no parent wants to forget their child in the car and come back later to find said child dead. That is devastating to the parent.
Only 31 deaths might not be motivation enough for car companies and baby seat makers but surely if they can make safe baby seats and anchors to hold them then together car makers and seat makers could devise a pressure sensitive warning device that would sound off until the child is removed when the car stops and is turned off to remind the driver to take the child. If the sound will wake the sleeping child then perhaps an intense blinking light is the way to go. We do have the ability to end the problem.
I purchased an "automatic center punch" that is used by firemen to break a car window in a jiffy ....just in case I should see a small child or animal in a car. My car registered over 120 degrees last week in a parking lot when I returned from shopping. I will not hesitate to use that punch to save a life. Works if you are stuck in a car as well.
Oh , we live in a world of total ignorance. How in the hell can anyone with a grain of sense or responsibility leave a child in a hot car , or even a car by themselves. If it happens the guardian should be charged with murder or attempted murder , period.
ReplyDeleteOxon Hill is in P.G. county , I used to live there , that's why I moved , P.G. County , land of the corrupt and ignorant.
Thirty-one children dying in a hot car is a very small number when compared to all the children successfully remembered and taken with the driver.
ReplyDeleteDespite this past year or so when a couple was accused of intentionally leaving their child in the car.(Hard to imagine anybody would want to face the scrutiny from killing their child that way) It is more sensible to say no parent wants to forget their child in the car and come back later to find said child dead. That is devastating to the parent.
Only 31 deaths might not be motivation enough for car companies and baby seat makers but surely if they can make safe baby seats and anchors to hold them then together car makers and seat makers could devise a pressure sensitive warning device that would sound off until the child is removed when the car stops and is turned off to remind the driver to take the child. If the sound will wake the sleeping child then perhaps an intense blinking light is the way to go. We do have the ability to end the problem.
Break the window, get the child out of harm's way, then call 911.
ReplyDeleteI purchased an "automatic center punch" that is used by firemen to break a car window in a jiffy ....just in case I should see a small child or animal in a car. My car registered over 120 degrees last week in a parking lot when I returned from shopping. I will not hesitate to use that punch to save a life. Works if you are stuck in a car as well.
ReplyDeleteA brick my fist my head whatever... If I see a child Inside of the car it's coming out quickly
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