Reply #31: My post asked how to reduce the occurrence. There are all manner of entirely preventable deaths

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that occur at low rates: despite ongoing public education campaigns to remind people not to leave children locked in cars during the summer and not to walk away momentarily from toddlers in bathtubs, children die regularly from it

If you have any ideas, let's hear them


Kids Dying at Record Pace in Hot, Locked Cars
Left Unsupervised Kids Play in Sweltering Cars, Become Trapped and Die
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
June 25, 2010
... Eighteen children have died across the country since the beginning of the year, eight of them in just the past 12 days, a record setting number of deaths for the first six months of the year since such data began being collected in 1998 ... http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/article/kids-dying-hot-unattended-cars/story?id=11014785

Here's toddler bathtub drowning this month

Toddler dead after drowning
December 07, 2010 8:30 PM
ODESSA AMERICAN
A 17-month-old toddler who was found facedown in a bathtub Monday afternoon was pronounced dead at about 2 a.m. Tuesday in a Lubbock Hospital ... http://www.oaoa.com/news/toddler-56879-release-lubbock.html