Car Seat's New Technology Aims To Prevent Hot Car Deaths
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A first of its kind car seat is now available for parents with the hope that it will prevent hot car child deaths.
Evenflo has designed a car seat that will remind parents, with a series of beeps, that their child is in the car when they arrive at their destination.
The car seat, which went on sale exclusively at Walmart on July 24, sells for about $150 and comes equipped with a smart chest clip (that's attached to the car seat straps and child) and a wireless receiver that plugs into the car. The receiver will sense when the car's engine has been turned off and activate the tones to remind the parent that the child is still in the car. The tones will also sound if the child unbuckles the chest clip during the ride.
Reggie, a father of three, recalls losing his daughter in 2010, after he mistakenly left her in the car while he went to work.
"All I heard was myself screaming, and it just seemed like time had stopped and I was holding my daughter. That moment was always on my mind 24-7. It was really hard to function, to do anything even remotely normal," he recalls. "When I lost Peyton on that tragic day, in my mind I am saying, 'How could I let this happen?'"
According to statistics provided by Evenflo, one child died every nine days from being left in a car.
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