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Kids Left In Hot Cars, Dying

Posted by Sandra On June - 8 - 2011

Sarah McIntosh of Kansas City buckles son Ethan into his car seat. A federal recommendation to keep kids in rear-facing car seats until they're 3 might increase the risk people will forget them.

Forty-nine children in the United States died of heatstroke after they were left in hot cars last year, a grim record. But as child-welfare groups try to prevent more deaths with information campaigns and as inventors work on technical fixes, both efforts founder on a hard reality: Good parents don’t think it can happen to them. It can, experts and statistics say, and new recommendations on rear-facing car seats could make the problem even worse.

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