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Quote From: martinhouses

Dr. Phil, Our 31/2 year old son died in a parked car. The doors were open, two grandfathers were 10 steps away. They could hear the movie playing on the DVD while my son sat in his booster seat to watch a movie while waiting for lunch. He was not in a public place, he was in a drive way to a vacation property. No one noticed when he took the seatbelt and wrapped it around his neck. The seatbelt tightened and it cut off his airway. He hung himself in our car. This happened in less than 10 minutes. This happened with two adults watching the car. The car was within eyesight. Yet the vehicle had tented windows. Thus obstructing clear view of him. There have been other instances of this happening. One to a young toddler while the car was moving! Her mother was driving. She fortunately did not die because her sister warned her mother that her sister was turning blue. Another time it happened to a young boy when his parents were unloading the car at a vacation house and the boy wanted to finish watching a movie. He managed to get the seat belt wrapped so tight around his waste he could not breathe. His mother cut him out with a butcher knife. Cars are dangerous, they are deadly even when not in motion. We as a society use them as an extension of our home. We eat, sleep, watch TV in them like we are in our living room at home. We need to educate people that this is not appropriate before another child  dies. We as a family have made this known to our friends and anyone we meet that we can tell them about what happened. If we see a child in a car left alone, we wait to make sure they are O.K. before we go into a store. We do not want our son's life to be in vain. We live with the pain every day. We miss him so much.

Quote From: martinhouses

Dr. Phil, Our 31/2 year old son died in a parked car. The doors were open, two grandfathers were 10 steps away. They could hear the movie playing on the DVD while my son sat in his booster seat to watch a movie while waiting for lunch. He was not in a public place, he was in a drive way to a vacation property. No one noticed when he took the seatbelt and wrapped it around his neck. The seatbelt tightened and it cut off his airway. He hung himself in our car. This happened in less than 10 minutes. This happened with two adults watching the car. The car was within eyesight. Yet the vehicle had tented windows. Thus obstructing clear view of him. There have been other instances of this happening. One to a young toddler while the car was moving! Her mother was driving. She fortunately did not die because her sister warned her mother that her sister was turning blue. Another time it happened to a young boy when his parents were unloading the car at a vacation house and the boy wanted to finish watching a movie. He managed to get the seat belt wrapped so tight around his waste he could not breathe. His mother cut him out with a butcher knife. Cars are dangerous, they are deadly even when not in motion. We as a society use them as an extension of our home. We eat, sleep, watch TV in them like we are in our living room at home. We need to educate people that this is not appropriate before another child  dies. We as a family have made this known to our friends and anyone we meet that we can tell them about what happened. If we see a child in a car left alone, we wait to make sure they are O.K. before we go into a store. We do not want our son's life to be in vain. We live with the pain every day. We miss him so much.