The simple safety habits experts recommend after a child’s death
Aug 24, 2026
The death of a Kentucky infant who was left in a vehicle for several hours has renewed attention to a question that safety experts have been asking for years: What steps can parents and caregivers take to prevent forgetting a child in a car? Experts say tragedies involving children left in vehicles
are often linked to disruptions in routine, memory failures and momentary lapses in attention rather than intentional neglect, making prevention strategies especially important, kidsandcars.org reported. ...read more read less