Child Dies At Fort Smith Hospital After Being Left In Hot Car

[Sugar Cookie]

Police in Fort Smith reported that a child who died after being pulled from a hot car earlier this week was only 3 years old.

In an update released Wednesday, officials with the Fort Smith Police Department said that initial reports from investigators are pointing to the death being heat related.

Officers said they responded to a local hospital Tuesday afternoon after a child was brought in after a still-yet-to-be-identified person broke windows out of a car to pull out the child. Hospital officials later pronounced the child dead.

Police say child who died in hot car in Fort Smith was just 3 years old

Police in Fort Smith reported that a child who died after being pulled from a hot car earlier this week was only 3 years old.

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5NEWS also spoke with an adjunct professor of meteorology who specializes in the dynamics of how hot cars can get. He says the last pediatric vehicular heatstroke death in Arkansas was in Booneville in July 2020 with the current incident being the 19th in Arkansas since 1998. He also says an infant or small child's body cannot cool itself off like an adult's would, but that it heats up three to five times faster.

“In the first 10 minutes a car is closed up, the temperature rises by 19 degrees. So let's say on a 100-degree day or 100 plus degree day like it is in Fort Smith, today….you know you’re at about 120 degrees in 10 minutes," said Jan Null, San Jose State University Adjunct Professor of Meteorology.

Police: Child dies at Fort Smith hospital after being left in hot car

Police say an "undisclosed person" was able to break the car window and take the child to the hospital.

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[Satanica]

Thread drift warning!

Just to give you an idea of how hot our cars can get during 100+ weather, we actually explored the possibility of baking potatoes on the dash. Even though cars can get hot enough to kill a human, they actually do not get hot enough to make a decent baked potato. Even at 102, the interior of the car only gets to around 169F while most of us bake our potatoes in a 400F oven. Now, if you leave them in the car long enough they will cook, but I read that the texture leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[cubby]

It gets hot here in Georgia but not like it gets in Texas, but last year, mid summer I took a friend to an appointment and park right out front of the Verizon store, in the next car was a baby about 1 yr old in a car seat and an about 3yr old all by themselves in the car, it was mid 90's out. The baby was crying and the older one was having a ball bouncing front to back to front again. Anyway I'm sitting in a car with the AC and still sweating, and I'm pretty sure these kids parent/s were in the phone store, standing in the line that's always there. I get out of the car and walk around back to look at the license plate and all of a sudden a woman appears and jerks the kids out of the car and yells at me to mind my own business, I got the kids out of the car, that was all I wanted, went back to minding my own business after she took them inside with her.