Children who had been left in a car can suffer from heat stroke in a few hours, even the temperature outside the car is not especially hot. According to the National Safety Council of US, about 30 children were killed per year. On average, 38 children die in cars because of high temperature. (Shimpi, Kadam & Mali, 2014).
The number of children that die in car had been increased from years to years. Children that had been left by their parents in a car may suffer from hyperthermia or heat stroke due to heat in the car. This is an accident that should be avoided and take it as a serious matter among the parents. Some parents may think that this accident will not happen to their family. Unfortunately, this problem still happened due to lack of attention from the parent. A parent may think that left their children in car is safe. They left their children in the car and do their work without thinking this will lead to another problem caused by their action. Some parent unintentionally left their children in the car. They forget about their child in the car.
There is another case that parent left their baby because of the baby is sleeping. Even in a few minutes, the heat can cause the baby to suffer heat stroke. Leave their child in the car not only causes hyperthermia or heat stroke but children may tend to play
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Most authors quote the core temperature of the body not exceeding 40.6 degree Celsius. (Grogan & Hopkins, 2002). Heat stroke can be happened to children even the weather outside the car are not really hot. This is because the temperature in the car is increasing faster than outside. Children are more tendency to suffer heat stroke than adult. The children can die from heat stroke if the temperature is above 107 body temperature. Parents may not alert about this situation. Even if they had opened the windows for slowing the heating process it still cannot avoid this
Marks homeostatic control was imbalanced. His body temperature rised, therefore the chemical reaction occurred more rapidly and body proteins lost their characteristic shape and stopped functioning. Because he suffered a heat stroke and lost a lot of water, that affected his blood pressure by the water leaving the cells in his blood vessels which caused him to feel weak, nauseous, disoriented, etc.
In this article written by the author Bruce Feiler, titled “Teenage Drivers? Be Very Afraid”, he talks about how he suggest the parents to stop being helicopter parents and allow their children to be independent. However, other professionals’ suggestions are the opposite when teenagers start to drive. As a result of the teenagers’ immaturity, the parents are told to be more involved because their child’s life may be in danger. As stated in the article by Nichole Moris “the most dangerous two years of your life are between 16 and 17, and the reason for that is driving.” There are various factors that play huge roles through this phrase of the teenagers’ life: other passengers, cellphones, and parents. In 2013, under a million teenage drivers were involved in police-reported crashes, according to AAA. The accidents could have been more but many teenage accidents go unreported. As a result, one of their recommendations to the parents is to not allow their children to drive with other passengers: other passengers can big a huge distraction and could increase the rate of crashes by 44 percent. That risk doubles with a second passenger and quadruples with three or more. Furthermore, as technology has taken over teenagers’ lives, the parents should suggest to those teenagers who insists on using the phones that the only safe place for it to be: in a dock, at eye level, on the dashboard. The worst place is the cup holder, the driver’s lap, and the passenger’s seat. Next, professionals also suggest that the parents implement their own rule and even continue the ones like the graduated driver’s licenses regulations. This regulation includes restrictions like not allowing their children to drive between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. To
According to the Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, "automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 3 to 33, with 43,005 (118 per day) Americans killed in 2002 alone" (Clayton, Helms, Simpson, 2006). Worldwide, vehicle accidents consist of 1.2 millions deaths per year, "behind only childhood infections and AIDS as cause of death amount people aged 5 to 30 years old" (Clayton., 2006). The annual cost of road accidents is estimated about $518 billion"(Factor, Yair, Mahalel, 2013). The fact alone of being in a moving, heavy vehicle is a danger in itself but individuals that do not wear their seat belts, talk on the phone, text, and do other distracting behavior also put themselves in even more harmful situations.
Child left in car for several hours dies of heat exhaustion and stroke. This headline has become all too common in recent years and it needs to stop. In The Glass Castle, the parents were never responsible for and didn’t care for their children. This is a growing problem in today’s society that can and should be prevented for the following reasons: Many children are left in cars while caretakers shop or even go to work, many children are raised to live off of the system the US government has in place rather than contribute to it, many parents are too dependent on daycare or alternate childcare and spend less and less time with their children, and finally children need love and attention from their parents so they can grow up and be good parents
After the incident, I began doing some research on teenage car accidents at the advice of the officer who had responded to the scene. What I read about and learned was frightening. In 2008 over three thousand teen deaths occurred, either as a passenger or driver in a ...
When a person dies in an accident or become disable because of an accident, it is not only a single life will be effected by a preventive accident, it is about the emotional connection to those life of so many life who will be suffering because of the devastating accident. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “In 2013, 2,163 teens in the United States ages 16–19 were killed and 243,243 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes.1 That means that six teens ages 16–19 died every day from motor vehicle injuries”(CDC). Today alarming numbers of teens are dying not because of drugs, not even from drinking and driving, but because of the accident which could have prevented. Today smartphone is gaining popularity on all ages, particularly among the teenagers, and these smartphone also fueled teens who were already engaging on phone while driving. Report published from American Psychological Association that, parents are having a direct role on distracting their kids while they were driving. Forty three percent of teens said that they talk to their parent while driving and another twenty six percent of teen text. ( in need intext citation )If we have so many data and research that are saying loud about the fatality number on distraction teens while driving, why parents are forcing their kids to die. According to the National Highway Traffic Administrations year 2011 report, teenager from age fifteen to nineteen years make ten percent of all drivers who involve in a fetal crash who were distracted while operation moto vehicle; most of them were using a cell phone (NHTSA 2015), we have to acknowledge the risk of our decision and that five seconds of time spending off of road to read a massage will cost a life and
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As we began studying the concept of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in class and within chapter four in our textbook. I immediately became interested in how a baby could suddenly die at such a young age. I had never heard about the syndrome before and began to search databases to find such causations for this tragedy that takes over 2,500 children under the age of one, each year.
...nvironment the children are in is a safe area that is provide with security and first aid. I really enjoy learning the policy about late pick, this really informed me more also on the word abandonment.
The people in the moving cars were doing many things. There were multiple people without seatbelts. Texting and driving was also incredibly common among the drivers; many were just staring at phones, or talking on them. Many people were also eating and driving, 15 coming out as the total. 5 kids in all were sitting in the passenger seat up in the front of the car/truck. The kids looked to be between the age ranges of 7-11.
In recent history, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or more commonly referred to as SIDS, is the most common cause of death for infants under the age of one year in the western part of the globe, but SIDS also occurs throughout the world. More commonly occurring during sleep in the child’s place of rest such as a crib, although it can take place anywhere and at any time; such as in baby carriages, safety car seats, or even someone’s arms. There is no sign or warning, definitive onset, and there are no products to prevent SIDS from happening. This paper will briefly cover the background and theories relating to the cause of SIDS and the preparations suggested to aid in the safety of an infant at risk.
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 35. Wearing a seat belt can prevent death in about half of these accidents. Did you know that every 15 seconds someone is injured in an automobile accident if they are not buckled up, or that every 13 minutes someone is killed in a crash. Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety related behavior. According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration seatbelts saved nearly 12,000 lives in the United States in the year 2000. The NHTSA estimates that more than 9,000 U.S. car accident fatalities in 2000 would have been avoided if the victims had been wearing seatbelts. Sixty three percent of the people killed in accidents were not wearing seat belts. The NHTSA a...
Today I will explain about why we should use seatbelt when driving car such as preventing death when an accident occurs, cultivate themselves too not violate the law and protecting our passengers.
Although there are many unsafe things that people should not do while driving such as, texting, reckless driving, speeding, and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, however, they still do it because they think they will not cause an accident. No one ever expects to get into a car accident one day while they are driving minding their own business heading towards their destination and suddenly being hit by someone ending up with head and back injuries and a broken hip bone or even fatality. The use of a seat belt may not save you from bodily injuries but it certainly can keep your body in place preventing you from being ejected out of a vehicle that has come to a halt. I’d rather be held in a car during a car accident than to be thrown on the side of a road any
Next, many people have either died or have been injured in motor vehicle accidents, each year there are about 5 million people injured in vehicle related accidents (The Environmental Impact of Automobiles). Although this all m...