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another PSA
  • wonderwomanx3
    Posts: 467Member
    I know somebody posted on here earlier about kids & swimming pools but I have another. Watch out for the cars that are parked in your driveway. my van is usually locked but I took ds5 to the Dr yesterday & stayed home from work so it wasn't locked. Told my boys to go outside & play. Ds9 came in a few min ago & told me I need to start locking it. He & ds5 got in it & pretended to drive. Not such a big deal for either of them (although its locked now) but if they had been a few years younger it could have been bad. Its supposed to be in the 90s here today.
  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,215Member
    yeah, they just had that one here on the news this morning...we lose too many little ones every summer because they get left in cars.  56% of parents simply "forget" they've got their kid with them...I truly don't understand that, how do you forget you have your kid with you, even a sleeping infant?
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  • beambeam
    Posts: 1,060Member
    Besides the heat they could accidentally put it in neutral or unlock parking brake... and it could roll.
    "Magic things are fond of deceptions.” ― Tom Robbins
  • wonderwomanx3
    Posts: 467Member
    Yeah all kinds of bad things could happen. @BellaBefana I don't know how you can 'forget' your kid is in the car.
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    well behaved women seldom make history
  • regpregp
    Posts: 1,011Member
    @wonderwomanx3 & @bellabefana I read an article a few years back that really laid out how this could happen to just about anyone. I had to google to find it, and now I'm just sick and sad all over again. Sifting through way too many articles about children dying in hot cars :(
    It's a long article, but it changed my point of view on some things.
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