A 1-year-old girl in New York died after her grandmother left her in the back seat of a car for eight hours while she went to work, police said. “Approximately eight hours later, the woman went to pick up the child at the day care, located on Redwood Lane in Smithtown, when she realized she had left the child in her vehicle,” police said. This is the 15th child to die in hot vehicle this year, according to NoHeatStroke.org, a website run by a San Jose State University lecturer that tracks hot car deaths. The high temperature Monday in Smithtown, which is located on the North Shore of Long Island, was 83 degrees. Within an hour, car temperatures can rise more than 40 degrees, even when temperatures are low.

Source: CNN August 02, 2023 16:57 UTC