having dropped a child off beforehand, based on a kind of “autopilot” habit of neurology.
“It fits the same patterns that we have seen in a lot of these forgotten-child cases,” Jan Null, a meteorologist who founded noheatstrokeorg.org to help prevent these types of tragedies, told the Times. “It was a good parent, who for some reason, went on to work, and didn’t remember he hadn’t dropped off his children.”
The results of these memory lapses can quickly turn fatal, however.
Dr. Robert Glatter is an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He said that “even in temperatures as low as 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside, the interior of the car can reach 90-100 degrees F in as little as 20-30 minutes. When it’s 90 F degrees outside, the interior can heat up to 110-120 degrees F in 30 minutes and be lethal in that short time frame.”
Children are at even higher risk of
