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Boy, 3, dies after parents forget about him and leave him for THREE HOURS locked in sweltering car - while they went to a family funeral. (Daily Mail)
Boy, 3, dies after parents forget about him and leave him for THREE HOURS locked in sweltering car - while they went to a family funeral. (Daily Mail)
more, with comprehensive chart of nontraffic-related child car deaths in U.S., 1991-2011, at link aboveIn what's being described as a tragic accident, a 3-year-old boy is dead after his parents mistakenly left him in a hot car in Florida over the weekend.
Adding to the tragedy, the parents were attending a funeral for another family member when the little boy was accidentally left in the car.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, Kyrese Anderson was pronounced dead after spending about three hours in the back of a hot car as his parents attended the funeral - and his two siblings were just feet away in the care of a babysitter.
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'They get back from the funeral several hours later,' Dave Bristow with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office told WTSP.com, 'and they ask where the 3-year-old was, and the babysitter said, "I thought he was with you?'"
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According to the website KidsandCars.org, 33 children were killed in the U.S. when they were left in hot cars in 2011. That's down from 49 in 2010.
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