Hot Car Deaths

• Ontario enacting daycare safe arrival rules aimed at preventing deaths in hot cars

  New rules for Ontario child-care operators coming into effect next year are aimed at preventing the rare but horrific deaths of children in hot cars.

  Canada

  Nov 16, 2023
  
• 1 child a year dies on average in Canada from being stuck in a hot car: study

  The majority of the deaths researchers studied involved incidents where a caregiver forgot to drop a child off at daycare.

  Canada

  Aug 4, 2019
  
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• Could legislation help save children from dying in hot cars? Some lawmakers say yes

  The death of a 16-month-old boy in Burnaby on Thursday after nine hours in a hot car has people wondering if legislation and technology is the answer.

  May 11, 2019
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• Tech could help parents prevent hot car deaths — but only in about half of cases, expert says

  Apps and car functions can help prevent parents from forgetting their children in vehicles. But what about situations when children have entered the vehicles themselves?

  Canada

  May 10, 2019
• Texas woman charged in deaths of toddlers left in hot car as punishment

  The woman smoked some marijuana and took a nap after leaving her toddlers in the car, authorities said.

  Crime

  Jun 25, 2017
• Texas father charged in death of infant daughter left in hot minivan for 3 hours

  A Texas father has been charged with manslaughter after he put his six-month-old daughter in a fridge with the door open after she had been left in a hot car for nearly three hours.

  Crime

  Jun 23, 2016