They drove to the babysitters house AFTER the funeral with him still in the back seat.. So very sad. This is about 20 min. from where I live.
more at link: http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/385620/28/Kyrese-Anderson-dies-in-car-while-parents-attend-funeral
Hubert took Nathan out to his vehicle, a black Hyundai Elantra four-door with a dark-colored interior, at about 2:30pm with plans to make a trip, according to O'Fallon Police.
Inside, a charging document says, Hubert 'consumed alcohol to a level which caused him to pass out'.
Pretty sad you need a device for basic parenting common sense.
That's where I think you're wrong. It has nothing to do with "common sense", it has everything to do with being a harried parent, intent on getting to work or wherever, in today's world. It has to do with chasing the almighty dollar and/or a lack of total bonding. Children, in the old days, were never in the backseat where no one could see them. Children were held and loved. Yeah, some died in accidents, but at least they didn't BAKE to death. I often wonder who is benefiting from these car seat laws. It doesn't really seem to be the babies.
Sure, send me stats on accidents. Then send me stats on children who die from heat or cold, while strapped in their seat by parents who have so much on their minds, like making money to pay for a house or car they can't afford, or credit card bills.
Until we adopt a simpler lifestyle, this is going to keep on happening. Children may not be our top priority - MONEY is.
That's where I think you're wrong. It has nothing to do with "common sense", it has everything to do with being a harried parent, intent on getting to work or wherever, in today's world. It has to do with chasing the almighty dollar and/or a lack of total bonding. Children, in the old days, were never in the backseat where no one could see them. Children were held and loved. Yeah, some died in accidents, but at least they didn't BAKE to death. I often wonder who is benefiting from these car seat laws. It doesn't really seem to be the babies.
Sure, send me stats on accidents. Then send me stats on children who die from heat or cold, while strapped in their seat by parents who have so much on their minds, like making money to pay for a house or car they can't afford, or credit card bills.
Until we adopt a simpler lifestyle, this is going to keep on happening. Children may not be our top priority - MONEY is.
Death by hyperthermia is the official designation. When it happens to young children, the facts are often the same: An otherwise loving and attentive parent one day gets busy, or distracted, or upset, or confused by a change in his or her daily routine, and just... forgets a child is in the car. It happens that way somewhere in the United States 15 to 25 times a year, parceled out through the spring, summer and early fall. The season is almost upon us.
Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.
...But it is funny that you said that, when I read this story I was thinking "If only the family could sue someone! If a child dies fairness dictates there should always be a lawsuit." and you volunteered the perfect solution that would allow for just that very thing!
I'm pretty sure that children got sometimes left in hot cars before the car seat laws too but I think it got mostly local news coverage if that before the age of the internet. It seems to me that I know a lot these days about all kinds of weird stuff and tragic accidents that happen all over the world that I wouldn't have had a clue about in the year stone and the beanstalk unless the Reader's Digest reported it in odd news section.
Sorry, but the fact we don't have the technology NOW doesn't prove it couldn't be developed. And it will be, but only when public pressure (perhaps in the form of lawsuits) demands it!
Those inventions are being promoted by college students and a 7 year old not business people. There is a reason the baby seat manufacturers have NOT taken that technology mainstream and it isn't because they don't think it would sell more baby car seats.
It is because they have legal departments.
That's where I think you're wrong. It has nothing to do with "common sense", it has everything to do with being a harried parent, intent on getting to work or wherever, in today's world. It has to do with chasing the almighty dollar and/or a lack of total bonding. Children, in the old days, were never in the backseat where no one could see them. Children were held and loved. Yeah, some died in accidents, but at least they didn't BAKE to death. I often wonder who is benefiting from these car seat laws. It doesn't really seem to be the babies.
Sure, send me stats on accidents. Then send me stats on children who die from heat or cold, while strapped in their seat by parents who have so much on their minds, like making money to pay for a house or car they can't afford, or credit card bills.
Until we adopt a simpler lifestyle, this is going to keep on happening. Children may not be our top priority - MONEY is.
What are they gonna sue for? Technology to remember your child is in the car? How about using common sense?