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37 Children Die In Hot Cars Each Year, According To A New Report
CNN via simplemost ^ | 6/12/2018 | unknown

Posted on 08/18/2018 4:27:17 AM PDT by sodpoodle

The official start of summer comes later this month, but already children have died after being left unattended in hot cars, according to the nonprofit National Safety Council, drawing attention to an issue that kills an average of 37 children a year.

The council released a report this month that says 742 US children died of heatstroke in vehicles between 1998 and 2017. Forty-two children died in these conditions in 2017, up from 39 the previous year.

Just 21 states have laws regarding this issue, the report says; eight include the possibility of felony charges for individuals who deliberately leave a child alone.

(Excerpt) Read more at simplemost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: childdeaths; children; devastating; heatstroke; hotcars; tragedies
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

“How about this? A law that all childrens’ booster seats be on the car roof, and you must give them umbrellas when you leave them handcuffed there.”

Don’t give Romney any ideas.


41 posted on 08/18/2018 5:26:35 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: Vendome; Politically Correct

Give the brat a big gulp and he’ll be fine. Needs a trip to the bathroom though.


42 posted on 08/18/2018 5:28:09 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Islamic in NM killed 4 year old & trained kids to be school shooters.)
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To: BobL

Did you know that Romney wanted to kill big bird? That’s Obama’s legacy — he ‘saved’ big bird.


43 posted on 08/18/2018 5:29:39 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Islamic in NM killed 4 year old & trained kids to be school shooters.)
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To: IncPen

Ban car windows.


44 posted on 08/18/2018 5:31:38 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Yea, a close call.


45 posted on 08/18/2018 5:35:57 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL
by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)

Odd, that's what my wife said to me.

46 posted on 08/18/2018 5:40:09 AM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Dixie Yooper

I like your tech solutions.

I know someone who left their kid in a car with closed windows on a hot day while in my driveway!

Some people are just zucking stupid—and they vote. :-(


47 posted on 08/18/2018 5:40:15 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: IncPen

Air conditioner should not be able to be shut off until you confirm no child is in the car.

Auto ac turn on when leaving car.

Also ban all autos without ac

Install recorded message “ Check to see if you left your child or pet in the car.”


48 posted on 08/18/2018 5:55:12 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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To: sodpoodle

ABC News talking head said you should “put something important” in the back seat so you’ll have a reason to look back there. WTF?


49 posted on 08/18/2018 5:58:35 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Politically Correct

“Odd, that’s what my wife said to me.”

Yea, I try to have fun with my tag lines. I live in Texas and half of the people here feel it necessary to drive a 6,000 lb. truck to the office every day, and some are pretty damn wimpy.

My other tag line is something like “I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald’s, but I don’t tell anyone”. I figure that a lot of FReepers actually do go to those places with their families, after blasting them here, in order to feel important...otherwise those places wouldn’t be doing so well.


50 posted on 08/18/2018 6:03:11 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: sodpoodle

I would have thought it was more. Not wishing that, just thought the number would be higher.


51 posted on 08/18/2018 6:15:26 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BobL

Just spay all the females. that would solve the child problem, stop all childhood deaths and stop global warming at the same time.


52 posted on 08/18/2018 6:19:13 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: sodpoodle

Annually, about 37 children die from “unsafe sleeping conditions”....in West Virginia...ONE state...with a population under 2 million!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRgX3TGM1c&t=5s (at about 1:28)

Extrapolated out, that would mean more than 6,000 children die annually on a national scale.

Whether it’s the numbers or the priorities, something is seriously messed up here!


53 posted on 08/18/2018 7:44:46 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: SMGFan
Install recorded message “ Check to see if you left your child or pet in the car.”

Not kidding. This would probably have saved all or most all of these children.

54 posted on 08/18/2018 7:53:45 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: sodpoodle

Everyone know how to rear children except those who have them may be true.


55 posted on 08/18/2018 10:24:31 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: sodpoodle
"37 Children Die In Hot Cars Each Year, According To A New Report"

Wow, that is news. How is it these 37 children manage to die more than once?

56 posted on 08/18/2018 11:13:08 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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