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What to do if you Find a Child in a Locked Car! Child Passes Out on School Bus From Heat!
Children and pets getting left in hot cars is a serious danger in warm months. According to KidsandCars.com, 32 children died of heatstroke in cars in 2014. And it doesn’t even take a hot day to make a car deadly: Temperatures in the low 80s can turn a vehicle into a hotbox in 10 minutes.
RELATED: Hot car deaths of kids are preventable: Here are 7 things to remember
So what do you do if your child (or pet) is locked inside with you outside? Here are some basic tips, if you don’t have a spare set of keys:
- Call 911
- While waiting, cover the windows to keep the car from heating up so fast
- If you break the car window, do it far away from the child
Children are more susceptible than adults to heatstroke, says Dr. Kay Leaming-Van Zandt of Texas Children’s Hospital.
“Children’s regulatory systems aren’t quite developed yet, and so their ability to produce sweat is diminished … versus adults,” she told TODAY.
Unfortunately, many children are accidentally left behind in vehicles, so if you park your baby in the back seat one recommendation to avoid forgetting them is this: Use a stuffed animal. Put the animal in the front seat next to the driver when the baby is on board, so you have a visual cue that they’re back there and need to be removed when exiting.
What to do if you find a child in a locked car
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break out the window & rescue the child if it is in distress…move immediately into the air conditioning & cool the kid off…and call the law…that’s a felony to leave a child like that
And of course, give the kid lots of fresh and cool water. People who leave their kids and or pets inside hot vehicles for more than 5 minutes on a hot Summer day need to themselves be locked inside a hot car with no water or ventilation. Maybe not “eye for an eye” but they at least need to have their kid taken from them IF they just left the kid alone for too long. I can understand maybe 5 minutes alone in a hot car but anything more than that and it’s ABUSE.