There is now legislation in Queensland making it an offence to leave a child under a certain age unattended in any vehicle, and a woman was prosecuted this week for doing so while shopping for jewellery in a pawnshop. The child was rescued after 40 minutes after a passer-by noticed he was suffering from heat stress. The woman was placed on probation for three years and required to undertake a parenting course. It has been recorded that, in a Queensland summer, the interior of a car can reach 60C after only ten minutes when the car is parked in full sunlight, as is often the case in suburban shopping centre car parks. It was fortunate in the case cited that the event occurred in our winter, otherwise the child would be either dead or severely damaged.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of paul stenquist Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2010 10:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars Most of my writing is, well, frivolous. Not this time. Kids are dying in cars at an unprecedented rate. As unbelievable as it sounds, those deaths are often caused by a simple memory lapse. The Times asked me to look into it. The article appears in tomorrow's paper, and it's up on the web now. Our own Ken Waller served as a very valuable resource, and he's quoted in the article. You'll find it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/automobiles/30HEAT.html?pagewanted=1&ref=a utomobiles Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
