Advocates call for safety standards to prevent hot car deaths
Several children die each year in Florida from heatstroke after being left in hot cars. Lawmakers are reintroducing the Hot Car Act to prevent more deaths.
Credit: Proxima Studio - stock.adobe.com Author: Libby Hendren Updated: 3:02 PM EDT May 12, 2021
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Lawmakers are reintroducing a bill to help save dozens of kids from dying in hot cars.
Last year, 25 children died from heatstroke across the U.S., and three of them were in Florida. It doesn t take much for a car to heat up in the Florida sun. Even with the windows cracked, the temperature inside can climb to 125 degrees in just minutes.
vehicles, i got involved as social work student 15 years ago when i was in college and when i learned about all of the preventible tragedies that the organization was working on and nobody else was working on at the time, you know, my heart was in it and i have been ever since. ainsley: do the folks that you have been with, they have similar stories? most of the people that we worked with have lost a child or had a child that was seriously injured and, you know, they have dedicated their lives and their passion to making sure that no other family has to go through something so terrible. ainsley: everyone s worst nightmare, hot car act, could prevent animal and children from dying in hot cars, has that passed, do we have that in motion now? it was introduced this summer on both the house and the senate side and it s passed the senate committee and has not moved anywhere in the house right now.