Keeping Kids Out of the Car During High Heat, Safety Tips to Prevent Heatstroke

With summer just about to dip into the month of August, it's important to remember essential safety tips on how to keep your kids safe from the heat, especially when it comes to the scorching temperatures that can surface inside a motor vehicle. 

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), at least 24 children have died due to heatstroke already in 2013, and one of them was only 8 months old.

A study by the Animal Protection Institute showed that even on moderately warm days, temperatures inside closed cars can quickly escalate to deadly levels.

For instance, one instance showed that at 82 degrees fahrenheit outside, the inside temperature of a completely closed car was approximately 109.

Those are particularly vulnerable to the deadly heat, especially when in a motor vehicle, are the elderly and children under the age of 4 are according to the NHTSA. Safety advocates propose that watching the weather forecasts are important to determine to keep your child and loved ones well-hydrated and only outside for a certain period of time, depending on the how hot weather forecasts predict it to be.

Of course, never leave a child, pet, relative or anything in a hot car. It's just like leaving food of any kind, really, for a short period during a heat wave. When you come back, it might look like a puddle of goo, and that's precisely what's happening to our bodies as they're overheating during heavy, wet, warm weather.

Unless it's really cold outside and you're running to your car in order to turn on the heat; that's a completely different story. But you get the idea.

For more tips on how to stay safe in the head, click here.