Toddler left in hot car dies outside East Dallas church - 2016

On Sunday, July 24 2017, Dallas police investigated the death of a 2-year-old child left in a car outside a church parking lot Sunday in East Dallas.

According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, crews were called to 11004 Shiloh Road shortly before 4 p.m. Boi Sang was found inside the car and transported to Baylor Medical Center White Rock, according to DFR. He was later pronounced dead.

Reng Om with Dallas Matu Christian Church told News 8 the father of the child noticed his son was not in a children's bible service.

 Om says the father went out and found the child still inside the family' 2006 Honda Pilot. It was 98 degrees at 3 p.m. in Dallas.

Om says he was inside the church when he saw the father walk inside the sanctuary holding his son in his arms. The child was unresponsive.

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“An otherwise loving and attentive parent one day gets busy, or distracted, or upset, or confused by a change in his or her daily routine, and just . . . forgets a child is in the car . . . it can happen to anyone!” Gene Weingarten, Washington Post

Quick Facts about Hot Car Injuries

 Since 1998, 705 children have died in hot cars, and over half of all hot car injuries occur because a parent or caregiver simply forgot the child was in the car.

• The temperature can increase in a car almost one degree per minute.
• The temperature in a parked car can easily reach 120 degrees or more in less than 30 minutes.
• The greatest rise in temperature occurs in the first twenty minutes after parking.
• Research indicates that cracking windows in the vehicle has little effect on temperature rise.
• A child's body temperature rises 3-5 times faster than an adult's.
• When a child's body temperature reaches 104 degrees, major organs begin to shut down, and at 107 degrees death is imminent
• Hot car deaths have been recorded 11 months out of the year in almost every state.
• Heatstroke is the #2 cause of child injuries involving automobiles, second only to backover injuries.

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