hot car deaths
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Tenn. Father Charged With Homicide After 11-Month-Old Daughter’s Hot-Car Death
The father of an 11-month-old girl is facing multiple charges after the child died this weekend after being left in a scorching-hot car “unattended … for an extended period,” according to Chattanooga, Tenn., police. ABC News reports that the temperature reached 90 degrees Saturday, when the child was left alone. An affidavit of complaint indicates…
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10-Year-Old Bishop Curry Raises More Than $20,000 to Help Develop His Device to Stop Hot-Car Deaths
One 10-year-old boy’s dream of saving the lives of children who may be left in hot cars has now become a reality since a GoFundMe targeted at helping him raise funds to patent and develop his invention has surpassed its goal. Summer is upon us, and while most kids will be out enjoying the sunlight,…
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10-Year-Old Texas Boy Invents Device to Stop Deaths of Children in Hot Cars
Bishop Curry V may be young (10 years old, to be precise), but the little kid from Texas has some big ideas. He’s currently working on a device that could help prevent children from dying in hot cars. According to NBC Washington, overall, the number of children who died in hot cars increased across the…
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Ga. Father Charged in ‘Hot Car’ Death of Twins
Because police believe that a Carrollton, Ga., man was drunk when he left his 15-month-old twin girls in a hot car on Thursday, they are charging him in their deaths. Asa North, 24, faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct for leaving his children unattended in a car, WSB-TV reports. Weather.com notes that…