Another Florida Child Dies In Hot Car

Ryan, Dana, and Chris Trenkmann discuss the death of a child in Florida after being left in a car by a babysitter. They also examine a recent string of accidental child deaths and the importance of preventing similar tragedies.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Ryan Gorman Show podcast presented by Farah and Farah
Accident attorneys from Tampa.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good Morning, Chris, Good Morning. A two year old girl
died over the weekend after being left inside a vehicle
outside of home in Hallandale Beach. The child in the
care of a babysitter at the time of the incident,
which happened on Sunday. Hallendale Beach Police said officers responded
to a nearby hospital where the child had been taken
and later pronounced dead. It follows another South Florida toddler

(00:31):
who was found dead after his father mistakenly thought he
dropped his son off at daycare, only to make the
horrifying discovery hours later that he had left the toddler
inside his sweltering hot car. This happened at the World
of Discovery Academy and Plantation outside of Fort Lauderdale last Monday.
And it's two examples, yea, of just how dangerous this

(00:56):
weather can be if you aren't focused in paying attention
respect so when you have young kids in the backseat
of your car. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Four hot car deaths. So far in twenty twenty six,
there have been ten nationwide. Four come from Florida, and
we still don't know the details, like what the babysitter
is saying about how this happened.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Correct, that's right, So we're and we haven't seen any
charges in these cases either.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, because the one that happened in my neighborhood a
couple of weeks ago, remember that, there was a three
year old boy who died in the backseat of his
dad's car at ten thirty at night. The dad calls police,
They show up, the kid is dead.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
And I don't know. I don't know what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
There have been no charges filed that I know of,
and I guess they're still investigating what happened in that one.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
But that was right down the street from my house.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
A lot of vehicles now have some safety features, yeah,
help with these kinds of things, but you know, not
every vehicle does. And I don't know, Dana, you're a mom.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I don't know how this happens. I really don't. And
what really bothers me is when they say put something
important like your purse or your cell phone in the
back seat your kids so that you don't forget. Yeah,
I know, I don't know how this happens. And I'm
a pretty forgetful person. I forget stuff, but I never
even one time ever forgot my kid in the car,

(02:20):
like it it's your kid.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I have a suspicion what the problem is. The problem?
The problem is the phones. Yeah, people are their phones. Yeah,
they stop their car, they look at their phones, they
park their car, they look at their phones, and they
just completely blank out. It happens even when you're sitting
at home on your couch and you'll be watching a
TV show and then you start looking at your phone
and you completely forget about what you were doing before

(02:41):
and you're just focused on the phone. Now, we don't
have the evidence in these cases if that's what's going on,
but it wouldn't surprise me. And the idea of putting
the phone in the back seat, well, okay, that's fine.
But the issue here is attention. You know, where is
the focus of your attention? And I think that the
phones would become a huge distraction, and it's a problem

(03:02):
in so many parts of your life, including driving your
kid around town.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
And I remember with one of these cases, I don't
know if it was last year or the year before,
but the dad was out of his routine like it
wasn't his normal routine to drop the kid off at daycare.
I think it was another one of those cases where
the dad was supposed to drop the kid off of daycare,
didn't and then just went right to work and came
outside and his kid was dead in the back of
the car. But it wasn't his normal routine, and that

(03:28):
was what his excuse was.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, there's no there's no question these are not intentional deaths,
total accidents. The question is is there any negligence involved here? Yeah?
And should there be charges file?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
I just don't know how.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I understand it's not on purpose, but how does that
happen that?

Speaker 5 (03:44):
That's what's hard to understand.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Then, there was a four year old girl who drowned
over the weekend in a lake behind her family's plantation home.
How many drownings have we had in a law of date.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
It seems there have been quite a few of the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
This year and lightning strikes. We had another instance where
you had a guy critically injured getting hit by lightning.
That was in Dade City.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, and then a second one just a few miles
away during one of those intense thunderstorms in the hot
afternoon and it's just a situation where you can't control that. Yeah,
but it shows that you can be just out doing
some gardening work or something, or even just walk into
the mailbox and get hit by lightning. So you know,
it's obviously a scary situation. In those two cases, the

(04:31):
recent ones, they're in the hospital. Hopefully they were covered.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
And wasn't there a home that was hit with a tree,
like a tree fell on top of it because of
one of those severe storms.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yes, that happened as a result whether they say it's
likely because of the storm, probably blew the tree over, Yeah,
and basically crushed the part of the house where the
person was inside and they didn't survive.

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