Dangers of Leaving the Child Alone in a Car:
Is this happened to you or not? If not, then you are the luckiest one in the world. And suppose that you are driving to home from market and / or anywhere else after a busy schedule and your child falls asleep in the backseat of the car. When you reached at your home, you think about cracking or knocking off the car windows to open and leaving your child there until they wake up. If this has happened to you once or more in the life, you are not alone in this world.
It is not safe while tempting to leave your child very alone in the car. It is said that almost 38 children in the United States die from stress and heat, each year after being caught in a car. Some of the children from them were left there by mistake and some were left for some short purposes, and some were using the car as a place to play.
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What is the destruction / harm while leaving a child alone in the car?
Heat stroke (hyperthermia) is the biggest hazard. Heat stroke can directly damage the brain and other body organs at earliest. It can even lead to death in few minutes. It doesn’t take so long for a children’s body temperature to become too high very fast when left in a car, some reasons as under:
- The temperature of the car inside can be increased twenty degrees in just ten minutes and forty degrees in an hour because the window glasses are off. It does not have to feel so hot outside the car to be dangerous as it is inside the car. Deaths have happened when it’s just above seventy degrees F (Fahrenheit) outside the car. Leaving the windows open slightly does not avoid / prevent the temperature from rising to a dangerous and even death level.
Research found that A child’s body heats up from three to five times faster than an adult’s body. Children have a lots of body surface area that absorbs heat very easily. Children’s bodies have not yet developed at their selves, the ability to cool down well. There are the cheapest car rentals available in Abu Dhabi.
Most of the children who have died from heat stroke in the car after being left alone in a car were at the age of three and / or below, but it has happened to kids as old as fourteen.
Measures to protect my child from these dangers:
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle / car, even for a minute!
More ways to protect your child:
- Strictly, do not allow your child to play in a car.
- Lock all doors and the trunk after everyone is out of the car.
- Keep all keys out of the reach of your child.
- If a child goes missing, check the pool first if you have one. Must check the car and its trunk as well.
If a child, God Forbids, becomes locked in a car, the consequences / ultimate results can be severe.
Following are the four tips to prevent the children to locked themselves in the car.
Educate to children that the car is not safe place to play;
Children are naturally interested and curious, so you must ensure to teach them with trust that cars are not safe places to play. Tell them do not use a car and /or car trunk as a place for hide-and-seek and don’t allow them to use your car as a play area. Kia Caren and kia Sorento rental car are available in Abu Dhabi for their clients.
Keep keys out of sight from your children:
You must keep away and out of reach, all your keys, from the child to protect them from any un-happy event.
Do not leave a child un-attended in any vehicle.
You must ensure that never leave a child un-attended in any vehicle, even and if the air condition is on or a window glass is opened. If a child is left in the car un-attended, they may become and accidentally locked in and be unable to let themselves out from the car. Always keep your child with you while locking off the car.
