16-month-old toddler dies after father forgets him in hot car
In Sausheim, near Mulhouse in the French department of Haut-Rhin in Alsace, a 16-month-old toddler died on Tuesday after he was accidentally left in a car. The car was parked in full sunlight.
The father, a 61-year-old man, was supposed to drop the baby off at the nursery before going to work, but in his work car park he forgot his child was in the back seat.
Late in the afternoon, the mother went to pick up the baby, but she discovered that the baby was not there. When she called her partner, it was already too late: the baby was found dead in the car by police and firefighters.
On Tuesday, it was 22 degrees hot in the French region Alsace, inside the car the temperature appeared to have risen to 47 degrees.
(PP/Source: France 3/Illustration picture: Pixabay)
