Psychological Reason of Why Children are Left in Cars
The psychological reason that causes a parent to forget a child in the car is the same one that causes a person to forget to buy milk. Their working memory becomes overloaded with things that they need to do, causing them to forget.
- Alan Brown Southern Methodist University Professor September 10, 2003
Hyperthermia Deaths of Children in Vehicles by Jan Null, CCM Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, SFSU Update d July 30, 2008
Already in 2008 there have been at least forty deaths of infants and children after being left inside a hot vehicle. Last year there were a total of at least thirty-five such fatalities in the United States due to hyperthermia after they were left in hot cars, trucks, vans and SUV's. This sadly followed 42 and 30 child deaths in 2006 and 2005 respectively. Since 1998 there have been at least a total of 364 of these needless tragedies. This study shows that these incidents can occur on days with relatively mild (i.e., ~ 70 degrees F) temperatures and vehicles can occur reach life-threatening temperatures very rapidly.
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