Ein zweijähriges Mädchen stirbt, nachdem es in einem Auto zurückgelassen wurde, als in Spanien extreme Hitze herrschte

A two-year-old girl has died of heatstroke in north-west Spain after being accidentally left in her father’s car during an unseasonably hot spell that could push temperatures in some areas to 38C (100F).

The child, who has not been named, went into cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon after spending several hours inside the vehicle in the Galician town of Brión after her father forgot to take her to nursery.

People often think that talking on the phone while driving is dangerous because you need to hold the phone in your hand, but it’s because oftentimes people are more focused on the phone than on the driving.

This is why modern cars have an option for a backseat check alert when you park and turn off the car.

I don’t have kids so mine is off. But when I have my nephews, damn straight that feature is turned right back on.

I feel so bad for this dad. This is guilt that will never go away.

How the fuck are people forgetting that their own kids are in the car? This is tragic and the dad deserves jail for this. Absolutely preventable. I don’t get it.

Fatal Distraction

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The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn’t want any sedation, that he didn’t deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.

The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute. Miles Harrison, 49, was an amiable person, a diligent businessman and a doting, conscientious father until the day last summer — beset by problems at work, making call after call on his cellphone — he forgot to drop his son, Chase, at day care. The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July.

This just happened in Los Angeles too. So incredibly tragic. I just hope these kids didn’t suffer and died in their sleep. Heartbreaking.

I’m 20 minutes from there. It’s suddenly hot the last two days. I am deeply sorry to the family.

This happened also a couple of years ago in Spain as well and the father ended up committing suicide. what a tragedy.

Every fucking summer on the clock, it’s so tiring and so heartbreaking. That and private pool drownings.

RIP little girl 😔