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Article: Vic: Baby left in hot car dies in hospital
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- February 22, 2000
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2000
Vic: Baby left in hot car dies in hospital
MELBOURNE, Feb 22 AAP - A 19-month-old boy who became critically ill when his mother
left him in a hot car for more than two hours last Wednesday died in hospital tonight.
Police said the toddler died in Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, where he had
been in intensive care.
The boy was found about 11.30am (AEDT) on Wednesday, February 16, in the car which
was parked alongside a Ferntree Gully hotel, in Melbourne's east, police said.
Temperatures inside the vehicle were estimated at up to 65 degrees.
Research material supplied by police has revealed that the temperature in a car could
rise within ...