Two-year-old becomes sixth child to die in a hot car so far this year

jeffw@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Two-year-old becomes sixth child to die in a hot car so far this year

AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 8 months ago

I see it’s time to repost this:

Fatal distraction, a Pulitzer Prize winning article

Tearjerker article about how parents who’ve been through this felt, why it happens, and what car manufacturers could do to prevent it.

Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20240617002402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

capital@lemmy.world · edit-2 8 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20140729204858/http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

FUCK ME

Several people – including Mary Parks of Blacksburg – have driven from their workplace to the day-care center to pick up the child they’d thought they’d dropped off, never noticing the corpse in the back seat.

Railcar8095@lemm.ee · 8 months ago

I didn’t want to read the article because I expected horrible things written in there. Like this.

Thanks

Corigan@lemm.ee · 8 months ago

I couldn’t finish reading, I am already a mess of tears 10 paragraphs in. I cannot imagine the pain and guilt…

AwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 months ago

It still makes me tear up every time I skim it, yeah.

TheRealKuni@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Same.