Date of publication: June 29, 2022 • 14 minutes ago • 2 minutes reading • Join the discussion Hot dog in car Photo by Getty
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In what the city mayor calls an “unsolved situation,” a Bancroft family faces every parent’s worst nightmare: a child who is ignored and left behind in a hot car. In a scene common to these tragic cases, “the mother intended to leave her child in kindergarten in the morning, but accidentally left him in the car, where she was found later that day.”
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Last week he was a five-year-old in Texas. Now, it ‘s Ontario.
It’s a terrible subject to read, and it’s a polarizing subject. Some people insist that there is no way a good parent can ever forget their child in a car. And yet, despite the few cases leading to criminal prosecution, it continues to happen at a rate of about 38 children in the United States each year and an average of one in Canada. It always makes headlines because it is a nightmarish scenario for every parent and every child. But it is not necessarily criminal. If you haven’t read anything else on this subject, read this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece from the Washington Post. To find solutions, we must find out how it can happen, and it is more complicated than neglect or poor parenting.
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Car manufacturers have begun to grow in recent years. The market is flooded with tips for making your own home alarms and even science exhibition projects. But in the end, the industry could do more. With all the sensors, alarms and cameras, our vehicles are already decorated, a reminder in the back seat had to become the norm. “The automaker is committed to introducing reminders in the rear seats that include a combination of audible and visual alerts on virtually all cars and trucks by the year 2025.” For the full list – many already sports reminders of a description – go to this article Consumer Reports. Just as backup cameras have saved countless lives, the faster this technology is standard on all vehicles, the better.
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