Child Safety

CDC: Heat leading cause of child deaths in parked cars in 2000-2001

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 11th, 2002

Dozens of children are killed each year when they are left unsupervised in or near family vehicles, whether they're left in a parked car on a hot day or backed over in the driveway, the U.S. government reported July 3, 2002.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at least 78 children died in accidents linked to parked cars between the summers of 2000 and 2001. More than a third died from heat exposure, the leading cause.

The report comes less than a week after two small children died in Southfield, Michigan, after their mother allegedly left them in the car for three hours while she had her hair done. Tarajee Maynor, 25, is...

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