Hot Cars Can Be Deadly

Warm Weather Reminder – Hot Cars Can be Deadly

 

 

With a significant warm-up in California and many parts of the nation this week it’s time for a reminder about the dangers of leaving children (and pets) unattended in vehicles. It only takes a matter of minutes on a relatively mild day for a vehicle to reach deadly temperatures, a fact that is exacerbated the hotter it is.

 

 

Already this year two children have died after being left in hot vehicles and neither day was particularly hot! Last year there were at least 44 such fatalities and since 1998 the instances are of epidemic proportions with over 600 juvenile vehicular heatstroke deaths.

 

 

More information can be found at http://ggweather.com/heat/ or contact me directly at jnull@sfsu.edu.

 

 

Help raise awareness about this issue; it may save a precious young life.