Kids in locked hot car... hammer solves problem
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:26 am
Two children freed from hot car by passerby
who smashed the windows with a hammer
By Justin Bank
The Washington Post
Two small children were freed from a hot car by passersby in a Houston suburb on Monday. The children were in the back seat of a black Jeep parked in a shopping center in Katy as temperatures hovered above 90 degrees, according to Houston TV station KHOU.
Gabriel Del Valle, who witnessed the event, told KHOU that he and other people nearby could hear the kids crying and decided to use a hammer to shatter the car window and get the kids out. “I mean you would understand,” Del Valle told KHOU. “It’s real hot.” After several minutes, the kids were freed and, KHOU reported, “appeared unharmed.”
Update: KHOU reported late Tuesday that addtional witnesses had stepped forward to say that the children’s mother had accidentally locked her keys in the car after shopping at a Postal+ store. The owner of that store also provided surveillance tape footage of the mother shopping with her children and then coming back without them, seemingly asking for help.
As temperatures rise in the summer months, mortal instances of children left in cars are back in the news. In Georgia, authorities are looking into whether a man left his child to die in a car on purpose, in order to collect life insurance.
Just last week, police in Connecticut say a 15-month-old boy died when he was left unattended. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that more than three dozen children die of hyperthermia in cars each year in the United States.
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who smashed the windows with a hammer
By Justin Bank
The Washington Post
Two small children were freed from a hot car by passersby in a Houston suburb on Monday. The children were in the back seat of a black Jeep parked in a shopping center in Katy as temperatures hovered above 90 degrees, according to Houston TV station KHOU.
Gabriel Del Valle, who witnessed the event, told KHOU that he and other people nearby could hear the kids crying and decided to use a hammer to shatter the car window and get the kids out. “I mean you would understand,” Del Valle told KHOU. “It’s real hot.” After several minutes, the kids were freed and, KHOU reported, “appeared unharmed.”
Update: KHOU reported late Tuesday that addtional witnesses had stepped forward to say that the children’s mother had accidentally locked her keys in the car after shopping at a Postal+ store. The owner of that store also provided surveillance tape footage of the mother shopping with her children and then coming back without them, seemingly asking for help.
As temperatures rise in the summer months, mortal instances of children left in cars are back in the news. In Georgia, authorities are looking into whether a man left his child to die in a car on purpose, in order to collect life insurance.
Just last week, police in Connecticut say a 15-month-old boy died when he was left unattended. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that more than three dozen children die of hyperthermia in cars each year in the United States.
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