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Drama in the parking lot: Baby locked in car – police save it!
A five-month-old baby was freed from a car in Amberg after police were alerted about extreme heat.
Drama in the parking lot: Baby locked in car – police save it!
A worrying incident occurred on Friday in a supermarket parking lot in Amberg, where a five-month-old baby was locked in a car. The emergency call was received by the police at around 11:20 a.m. The emergency services had to act quickly because the heat in the vehicle had already reached alarming temperatures. Loud Central Bavarian The 37-year-old mother from Fensterbach had forgotten her car key in the vehicle, which caused the car to lock automatically.
Police did everything necessary to free the child and broke a side window of the vehicle. The subsequent intervention of the emergency services gave the all-clear; the baby was fine. Fortunately, the situation did not have any serious consequences. Nevertheless, this incident shows how dangerous it is to leave animals and children alone in the car in the summer heat.
Risks caused by heat in the car
The heat in the car can quickly rise to life-threatening temperatures. How BR According to reports, cars can reach temperatures of over 60 degrees Celsius even with the windows slightly open. Children are particularly at risk because their bodies can absorb three times as much heat as an adult's and they sweat less effectively.
Similar incidents that have occurred in the past illustrate this danger. In Ingolstadt, an eleven-month-old child was locked in the car by his father because he left the key in the vehicle when he got out. In this case, the police also broke into the vehicle because the baby had already heated up significantly.
Preventing heat stroke and accidents
To avoid such critical situations, experts recommend never leaving children, elderly people or pets alone in the vehicle. Again SWR explains, the temperature inside a car is exposed to critical values after just half an hour when the outside temperature is 30 degrees. At 35 degrees outside temperature, dangerous temperatures can be reached after just 15 minutes.
The police in Zweibrücken had similar experiences when they rescued a child from a car in which he was locked with the car keys. Such incidents remind us to be particularly careful and to use technical support devices such as child presence detection systems.
In Italy, warning alarms on child seats have been mandatory since 2019 to prevent children from being forgotten in the car. Such measures could also make sense in Germany to minimize the risk for our little ones.
This incident in Amberg clearly shows how important it is to take supervision of children seriously - especially in the hot summer months, where the dangers are greater than many think.