Hot Cars & Children

Every year, we hear stories about children dying because they were left inside a car during the heat of summer.  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an average of 37 children die annually from heatstroke after being trapped in a car.  Laura Dunn, a highway safety specialist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, says there are three scenarios where a child can get heatstroke in a car.

Dunn says it doesn’t take a long time for a child to get heatstroke while in a car.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a safety campaign titled “Stop. Look. Lock.”  There’s more information on that through this link: https://www.nhtsa.gov/campaign/heatstroke .

You can hear more from Laura Dunn this Saturday on Access Health, which airs at 8am on KRJB and KRJM and at 8:30am Saturday on KKCQ.