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Cars Can Kill In Ways Other Than Crashes
The inside of a parked car heats up faster than you think. In as little as ten minutes, it can be hot enough to kill. Never leave a child in a car unattended. Not for a few minutes. Not with the window cracked. Not in the shade. Not ever. Even on a day that’s not so hot, your car can heat up like a oven.
Hot Car Deaths Can Happen To Anyone.
The majority of hot car deaths happen because a parent or caregiver unknowingly leaves the child behind. An attentive, caring parent gets lost in routine and forgets to drop off their child at school. Forgets to go to daycare first. Or doesn’t realize the child is in the vehicle in the first place. It’s hard to imagine, but it happens, almost once every week. To people just like you. So, the first step to preventing it, is believing that it can happen to you.
What You Can Do?
- Never leave a child alone in a motor vehicle.
- Make a habit of checking your back seat.
- When strapping a child into a car seat, leave a reminder like a cell phone or even your left shoe in back with them.
- If you see a child unattended in a vehicle, call 911.
- After parking your car, lock it. Children who get inside an unlocked vehicle can become trapped.
Facts About Hot Car Deaths
- More than 1,050 children have died in hot cars nationwide since 1990.
- The average number of U.S. child hot car deaths is 38 per year (one every 9 days.)
- More than 88% of children who have died in a hot car are age 3 and younger.
- 55% of heat stroke deaths occur because a caregiver unknowingly left the child in the vehicle.
- Approximately 43% of children who were unknowingly left were supposed to have been dropped off at child care.
- Roughly 25% of heat stroke deaths occur because the child got in the car without a caregiver knowing and couldn’t get out.
- Nearly 15% of deaths occur because a caregiver intentionally left the child in the car.
- The inside of a vehicle heats up VERY quickly. 80% of the increase in inside temperature happens in the first 10 minutes.
- Even with the windows cracked, the temperature inside a car can reach 125 degrees in minutes.
- Cracking the windows or not parking in direct sunlight does not help slow the heating process OR decrease the maximum temperature. Heat stroke deaths have occurred even when the vehicle was parked in shade.
- Heat stroke can take place when the outside temperature is as low as 60 degrees.
- The body temperatures of children can increase three to five times faster than adults. Heat stroke begins when the body passes 104 degrees. Reaching an internal temperature of 107 degrees can be deadly.
Source: Kids and Car Safety
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