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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Kelly Rissman

Over 50% of kids who die in cars were left there unknowingly. Forgetting your own child is easier than you may think

A Texas mother believed she’d gone through her normal routine on Wednesday: deliver her 5-year-old son to school, as always, before heading to work next door. At the end of the school day, she went to pick him up — only for the school to inform her he’d never arrived.

In a nightmare twist, he had died after spending hours in the back of her car as the temperature rose, still strapped into his seat. She had completely forgotten to drop him off.

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