A one-year-old girl has died in New York City after her grandmother left her in the back seat of a car for eight hours, local police said.
The 54-year-old woman forgot to drop the child off at his nursery while she traveled to work on Monday.
“Approximately eight hours later, the woman went to pick up the girl from the school when she realized she had been in the vehicle the entire time,” law enforcement said.
The child was immediately taken to hospital, where unfortunately he was pronounced dead. It is not yet clear if charges will be filed in the case.
“This is the 15th child killed in a hot vehicle this year,” said NoHeatStroke.org, a website run by a San Jose State University professor that tracks such deaths.
The temperature in Smithtown, where the accident happened, was 28 degrees. Temperatures in cars can rise 20 degrees in just 10 minutes, often enough to cause hyperthermia.
A child’s temperature rises three to five times faster than an adult’s, and he can die when his body temperature reaches 41.6 degrees, commented the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, bTV reported.
2023-08-02 14:55:00
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