People out here used to call it “baby baking season”.
Forgetting your children can be easily avoided by simply putting something you actually value - a cell phone, a purse, money - on the back seat.
I hate these stories. I just don’t get why the car manufacturers can’t solve this.
A thermal heat detector that can automatically roll the windows down................... Something???
Can’t SOMETHING be borrowed from the military/security industry to fix this problem??
“...parent-drivers were required to put their children in the back seat, where they are safer in transit but more likely to be forgotten.”
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Like that 6th bag of groceries?
“Forgotten” like that?
Guess I’m from a WHOLE other planet than these people.
“...parent-drivers were required to put their children in the back seat, where they are safer in transit but more likely to be forgotten.”
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Like that 6th bag of groceries?
“Forgotten” like that?
Guess I’m from a WHOLE other planet than these people.
I think Jan Null is blurring the lines between meteorology and sociology.
I am going to propose a typical liberal panic solution. BAN ALL CARS!!! IMMEDIATELY!!! OR GO TO JAIL!!! unless you are a union member.
Another government plan gone wrong combined with working moms who have no child care habits.
Working moms used to be allowed to talk to their children in the front seat on the way to daycare.
The government and the Feminists decided that was too much contact so they moved the kids out-of-sight-out-of-mind.
It’s got to be one of the most heartbreaking kind of stories we get. And maddening. It’s almost as maddening as reading arrogant comments by people who insist (for no good reason) that they themselves are incapable of ever making such a mistake.
“Keep your wallet or something you need in the back seat next to your child to remind you not to leave without them.” and “Put a Post-it note on the dashboard to remind you that your child is in the back seat, especially when your routine has changed.”
So to the parentally challenged, you may want to put something you value very highly, like your wallet or your purse next to your young child.
Priorities, you know.
/s
I don’t remember children dying in hot cars before they were mandated to ride in the back seat.
Would you forget a purse full of a million dollars in the back seat?
This is SO sad—and the “parents” who let this happen need to be sterilized-—or locked up in hot cars for a few hours.
Am I in before the posts whining about if only they didn’t mandate child seats in the back, this wouldn’t happen?
This is an interesting article regarding the children who die of hyperthermia in a car because they were forgotten...approximately 50% of child deaths.
It won’t reduce the condemnation of those who hold themselves incapable of making the same mistake, so the rest of us will just prey their record remains inviolate and that it will NEVER happen to them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html
Most days over 90 in June for Southeast since 1952
Why is there a correlation between this tragedy and race and or socio economic class
and drug use
and illegitimacy
irresponsible behavior
or folks taking chances....they don’t all forget they are in there
little creatures even at only 7-10 months already know when they aren’t loved or wanted
if we hung a few of these parents from trees it might stop some of it
(i’m not talking about genuine accidents)