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An Alarming Solution For Kids Left To Bake In Cars
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At least 300 children have died in the last 10 years because they were left in hot cars. If we make the rather obvious assumption that not all children left in hot cars died we may well be dealing with thousands of children baking in metal cans and at risk of serious injury or death.
How Should System Respond to Parents Who Leave Kids in Cars?
The AP analyzed 300-some child deaths in hot cars in the last 10 years. Sometimes caregivers are charged, sometimes not. When they are prosecuted sentences vary. Mother are more often charged than fathers and, when convicted, their sentences average two years longer. Sentences vary when kids die in hot cars, Seattle Times, July 28, 2007.Posted by Mary Whisner at TRIAL AD NOTES
It may be difficult to decide the degree of culpability of each parent or caregiver and, therefore, the appropriate legal response after the death has occurred. However, it is not difficult to see that a simple alarm loudly and continuously sounding if a seatbelt remains engaged more than 20 minutes after a car's ignition is turned off could save lives. My car sounds like a bank robbery has occurred if I fail to buckle my seatbelt within about 60 seconds of ignition. Why not the same alarm for an engaged seatbelt without ignition?
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