On May 29, 2010, at 6:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Good article, but have a hard time believing parents forget babies in cars.
Well, it happens, and apparently with ever increasing frequency. Another one reported today, the third this week I believe. I received the following from Jannette Fannell earlier today. Below is an incident that took place in Michigan yesterday. The 4th this week and 7th fatality in the U.S. 2 yr old dead after being left in car Girl was sleeping, mom left her in vehicle Friday, 28 May 2010, 7:19 PM EDT Updated: Friday, 28 May 2010, 11:20 PM EDT By Megan Stembol WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) - A Wyoming toddler is dead after being found in a parked car. Police told 24 Hour News 8 they were called to the 1900 block of Martindale around 5:20 Friday afternoon on a report of an unresponsive 2-year old girl. The little girl was pronounced dead upon arrival of emergency crews. Neighbors around the home at 1913 Martindale said they had heard yelling and screaming from the home for quite some time, but many thought the kids that lived in the home were just playing. Gwien Kimmel, who lives next door, went into the home to find out what was happening. She saw the toddler laying on the living room floor. "I tried to see if she was breathing," said Kimmel. "I tilted her head back, tried to do a couple of breathes in." Kimmel said the girl was hot to the touch, and was vomiting. Her attempts to perform CPR on her were unsuccessful. Neighbor Amber Johnson said she didn't know how long the girl had been in the car. "The little girl said she was sleeping in the car so her mom left her in there to take a nap," explained Johnson. An investigation into the child's death is ongoing with the Wyoming Police Department. Captain Brad Schutter said an autopsy was scheduled for Saturday morning. http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/ottawa_county/Child-found-unresponsive-in-parked-car > > I do believe that someone could put a baby in a car seat ONTOP of a car, > and start backing up forgetting they were there. But that's different. > > Marnie > > In a message dated 5/29/2010 5:04:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > Most of my writing is, well, frivolous. Not this time. Kids are dying in > cars at an unprecedented rate. As unbelievable as it sounds, those deaths > are often caused by a simple memory lapse. The Times asked me to look into > it. The article appears in tomorrow's paper, and it's up on the web now. > > Our own Ken Waller served as a very valuable resource, and he's quoted in > the article. You'll find it here: > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/automobiles/30HEAT.html?pagewanted=1&ref=a > utomobiles > > Paul > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
