Posted on 08/12/2014 7:17:37 PM PDT by windcliff
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A woman and her two young daughters found dead in her stifling car in a middle school parking lot died from accidental heatstroke, the Maryland medical examiner's office said Tuesday.
The formal cause of death was hyperthermia and environmental heat exposure, spokesman Bruce Goldfarb said.
Allison Keyonda Pluck, also known as Allison Lancaster, 32, was found dead in her silver Nissan sedan June 16 along with the bodies of Shania Gill, 18 months, and Shameka Gill, 6 months. The mother was reclined in the driver's seat and the girls were strapped in their child seats with the windows closed, the ignition off and the doors unlocked, police said.
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What is it this year with parents locking kids in hot cars?? This sounds like a suicide bringing her kids with her.
Dear me. Drunk, stoned, insulin reaction, heart attack? What a shame.
“This sounds like a suicide bringing her kids with her.”
It’s hard to think someone would commit suicide in that manner.
It’s not just this year.
This is a growing issue over the past 8-10 years.
I don't imagine the folks who are that stupid can read anyhow.
If it was that it's the first I've heard of.
Its about like suicide by slingshot.
OTOH, how could it happen accidentally if it would be too much to endure in a suicide attempt? I guess you could say she might have passed out under relatively minor heat stress, making it an accident.
It makes me wonder how much of this is due to crime. When I was a kid in the ‘50s, my parents often left my brother and I in the car while they ran into the store to grab something, even when it was hot. Of course back then no one rolled up their windows and locked their car before going inside a business. Why would you back then?
I can see how this would happen. Bad night with crying child/noisy neighbors/something, leaving the house to go someplace quiet where you can grab a nap, fall asleep, and not notice as the car heats up. It happened to a teenage girl a few years ago—she was perfectly capable of leaving the car but she was asleep, and never woke up as the hours passed and the sun came up.
A few months ago I was trying to sell my house and the real estate agent told me to get myself and my two dogs out of the house every day while buyers looked at it. We had buyers in there from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for several days. Each night I’d go home and try to clean the entire house, plus continuing repairs, cutting the grass, fluffing up the landscaping, correcting anything the visitors had commented on, and generally trying to make the place look like a hotel room. By the fourth day I was completely exhausted. I tried to take a nap in my car, and the same thing could have happened to me as happened to this poor woman. And believe me, I was not drunk, on drugs, or self-destructive, just worn out. But you fall asleep when it’s cool, and then the temperatures start to rise...No, I don’t think this was suicide. Nobody could commit suicide that way.
I think she must have been really passed out, from either natural or induced causes. She must have just been out cold. I don’t even know if you could be that drunk, that you wouldn’t wake up from discomfort, but I guess they are saying the mom too died from hyperthermia, so I don’t know.
I’m thinking flashing signs at both entrances: Symbols for a ‘car’ and the word ‘kids’, and then a picture of kids in a car, in a circle with a slash through it.
Allison Keyonda Pluck, also known as Allison Lancaster....
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