Hot Car Safety

Leaving a child alone in a vehicle can lead to tragedy.
Hot car safety. We as parents caregivers and bystanders play a role in helping to make sure another death doesn t happen. Leaving the windows cracked or. In 2018 53 children died in hot cars. This can be a little tricky.
Your car may have child safety settings for power windows but that doesn t mean your child will not find a way to test the system. In 2019 52 children died of heatstroke because they were left or became trapped in a hot car. It was the deadliest year on record in the past 20 years. Hot car safety tips to remember this summer more fifty three children died in hot cars in 2019 which followed a record high of 54 hot car deaths the year before according to national nonprofit.
Hot car safety toolkit. More than 600 u s. These deaths while accidental are always preventable. Record number of children died in hot cars in 2018.
24 occurred in employer parking lots while the parent or caregiver was at work. You know parked cars get hot but what you might not realize is that a car s interior temperature can rise 20 degrees in just 10 minutes. Here s everything you need to know about the risks of hot cars as well as safety tips for avoiding these situations altogether. Temperature spikes in a matter of minutes.
These cases happen when kids are left unattended in a hot car sometimes because. 2 year old boy rescued from hot car in dramatic moment caught on video. The science behind hot cars. That s significantly down from the record setting years of 2018.
In the first seven months of 2020 14 children in the u s. It s important for everyone to understand that children are more vulnerable to heatstroke and that all hot car deaths are preventable. Children have died that way since 1990 according to the nonprofit safety group kids and cars. You need to keep your dog hydrated but you don t want to create a mess in the back seat and have.
Children s bodies heat up much faster than adults do according to the nonprofit national safety council. Since 1998 more than 800 children have died from vehicular heatstroke. The iaff has partnered with the national highway traffic safety administration s nhtsa park look lock campaign to educate the public about children being left in vehicles. All model year 2010 vehicles and newer will have pull to close switches which require you to pull up on them to close the window.