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Bookmark or Share- Hot car deaths are a real risk amid sweltering heat wave: What to knowIn the past 25 years, nearly 1,000 children have died while trapped inside oven-like cars. Heatstroke deaths among children left in cars occur most frequently in August. Since 1998, when...
- There's science behind why parents leave kids in hot cars - USA TODAYMore than 900 children have died in hot cars in the U.S. since 1990. Yearly, 38 kids die on average. That's one every nine days, according to KidsAndCars.org, which tracks hot car deaths.
- No Heat Stroke1006 children have died in hot cars due to Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke (PVH) since 1998. All of these deaths could have been prevented. A deep dive into circumstances behind hot car child deaths.
- Child Heatstroke Prevention: Prevent Hot Car Deaths | NHTSAOver the past 25 years, more than 1,000 children have died of heatstroke, because they were left or became trapped in a hot car. It’s important for everyone to understand these tragedies can happen to anyone – but are always preventable.
- The Health Divide: As summers get hotter, too many kids are dying in ...In 2023, there were 29 child hot car deaths, and in 2024, 20 deaths have been reported so far, according to the tracking site NoHeatstroke.org. Children are more vulnerable to heatstroke in hot cars because their bodies heat up faster than adults.
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