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Fear of Cars

May 31, 2015 permalink

A promotional video by the Toronto police warns parents against the danger of baking their children left alone in a car. It is on YouTube or a local copy (mp4).

Not mentioned in the video, the danger of heat death is minimal in Canada's climate. Our list of deaths in foster care shows eighteen children baked to death in a vehicle, none of them in Canada. But even where the climate is warmer, children do not die from being left in a car while mom runs into a store. Tragedies occur when a parent on autopilot drives a baby to work, then forgets him in the car all day.

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