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DPS Warns of Hot Car Dangers
More than 36 children die in overheated cars every year in the United States, research shows, adding up to more than 600 deaths since 1998. By Daily Light report AUSTIN The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning residents that warmer weather places children at higher risk of injury or death if left unattended in…
Road trip Safety
Each year thousands of American families pack up the car to go on roadtrips, but many do not consider this dangerous fact: unsecured objects in your car can become projectiles in a crash. George Clark of Wisconsin should know. He and some fellow dads were coming home from Boy Scout Leader training when another car pulled right into their…
Danger of Keyless Ignition and Carbon Monoxide
People are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning as they forget to turn their cars off after parking in a garage. [Photo: Naver.com] Keyless ignition and remarkably quiet engines in modern cars have actually been killing people, according to a report in The New York Times. Every single year, it seems we in the car buying public…
75-Year-Old Man Survives Being Trapped in Hot Cadillac for 14 Hours
Posted By BJ Colangelo on Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:17 a.m. With cold weather just around the corner, 75-year-old Peter Pyros of Cleveland wanted to take one last spin around the neighborhood in his 2006 Cadillac XLR roadster. Pyros got in his vehicle, shut the door and hit the push-start button. Nothing. He tried putting the key fob into a slot to…
The Facts About Leaving Dogs in Hot Cars
Go to: http://heatkills.org/the-facts/the-facts-about-leaving-dogs-in-hot-cars/ See source data for this graphic, from San Francisco State University, at: http://ggweather.com/heat/ Quotes by experts “Children have died in cars with the temperature as low as 63 degrees. Basically the car becomes a greenhouse. At 70 degrees on a sunny day, after a half hour, the temperature inside a car is…