Safety Alert: Nearly 40 children die each year in hot cars. What every parent needs to know
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It’s a frightening number: On average, 37 children die every year after being left behind or becoming trapped in a car.
Those numbers come from a national group that tracks pediatric heatstroke deaths in vehicles.
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