No charges filed in hot car death of Carthage 3-year-old girl

CARTHAGE, Mo. – The Carthage Police Dept have submitted the findings of their investigation to the prosecutor regarding the hot car death of a 3-year-old girl last week.

Lieut Jeff Pinnell tells KOAM’s Shannon Becker, as of now, no charges have been filed.

Last Friday Carthage Police responded to a home in the 100 block of North Maple. A child was found unresponsive inside a hot vehicle.

| RELATED >> Carthage Child found unresponsive in hot vehicle has died

The investigation shows the child entered the vehicle on her own and could not get back out he says.

The girl died in a Springfield hospital the following day.

She was the 16th child hot car death of 2022 according to unofficial estimates.

HOT CAR DEATHS 2022

Experts say almost all of these deaths occurring in “nontraffic incidents” are preventable. Many watchdog groups are pushing for technology to be implemented in new vehicles to prevent hot car death.

Wednesday a child in Fort Smith, Ark. died after being discovered in a hot vehicle. The child was rushed to a hospital and died shortly thereafter. Arkansas authorities are awaiting the findings of an autopsy by the State Medical Examiner. It could be the 18th death attributed to a hot car.

According to the National non-profit group Kids and Car Safety2021 had 23 children die in a vehicle due to heatstroke.

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Child dies in Fort Smith Ark., investigators say, “left inside hot car”

FORT SMITH, Ark. — Just before 2:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon Fort Smith Police responded to a call at a local hospital that stemmed from the 3600 block of Boone Avenue. Upon arrival, it was reported that a child had been left inside a hot car.

“An undisclosed person reportedly broke out one of the car windows and took the child to the hospital,” FSPD state in a media release. “The child was later pronounced dead.”

Crisis Intervention Unit of FSPD and officers responded to the hospital. Investigators were on the scene at Boone Avenue as well.

No other information is available at this time.

CHILD IN HOT CAR DIES IN CARTHAGE, MO.

Carthage Missouri Police told us Friday a child was discovered unresponsive inside a hot car in the 100 block of N Maple Ave. The child was airlifted from Joplin to Springfield for a higher level of care.

Lieut Jeff Pinnell of Carthage PD updated us over the weekend the child had died.

No charges have been filed in the death.

HOT CAR DEATHS 2022

Experts say almost all of these deaths occurring in “nontraffic incidents” are preventable.

If investigation proves the child died Tuesday in Fort Smith as a result of being inside a hot vehicle, this would be the 18th death so far in 2022.

According to the National non-profit group Kids and Car Safety2021 had 23 children die in a vehicle due to heatstroke.

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