LAKE MARY, Fla. - Between 1990 and 2008, 180 children were killed by deploying passenger side airbags; however, during those same years more than 550 children died from heat stroke because they were left in hot cars.
In fact, in the three year period from 1990 to 1992, before airbags were required, there were only 14 known heat stroke related deaths. But now because of passenger side airbags most young children travel in the back seat and there have been 113 known fatalities just in 2007 through 2009 alone.
Three Central Florida men are hoping to lower those numbers; they have invented a car seat that tells you when you left your child in the car.
It's called the "CARE seat" - Communication And Reminder Enhanced car seat.
Rob Nottage from Lake Mary has been working on the CARE seat for years.
"I heard a story of two children left unattended and both of them died,” said Nottage. “It broke my heart,"
Nottage and his buddy Rob Munch along with friend Kevin Miller put their heads together to come up with the care seat alert system. It's basically a modified car seat wired to send alerts to your vehicle. The five-point seat belt buckle on the car seat has a sensor-- which is connected to the car's electrical system to let parents know when they've left their child in their car.
The trio has been in talks with a major car seat component manufacturer. They say it may be a couple years before we see this type of technology in our cars, but Nottage says so far the feedback's been good.
"They seem like they are on board with incorporating this type of technology,” he said. “If the vehicle manufacturers are interested in it."
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Hey! Thank you so much for your support and sharing this article. We greatly aopreciate it! Just one thing though, its not an airbag. Lol. It was great tosee your feedback and please continue to spread the word on this. Saving lives is our goal along with spreading awareness.
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