Rockland’s sheriff wants to make sure you know what to do if you see a person or a pet left in a hot car. Lou Falco says you should call 911, local police or the sheriff’s department immediately, and breaking the glass to get into the car should be the last option…
Four years ago this week, a New City man’s one year-old twin children died after he accidentally left them in the back seat of his car while he went to work at the VA Medical Center in the Bronx. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment to avoid prison time. More recently, a baby girl died in May after being left unattended in the family car on Ridge Avenue in Spring Valley. The unidentified father has been charged with criminally negligent homicide. Her death was the third hot-car fatality reported in the U.S. this year. In Texas earlier this week, bystanders in a gas station parking lot broke the windshield to get a baby out of a hot car. A video of that has gone viral. The group “Kids and Car Safety” says more than 1,050 children have died in hot cars nationwide since 1990. Last year alone, 36 children died.