Whilst we used a tongue-in-cheek tone about the forgotten funeral urn, there is nothing that can be taken lightly about the death of baby that had been left in a car in August in the Canary Islands.
The 20-month-old baby succumbed to the consequences of heatstroke in the early hours of last Sunday in Fuerteventura. The child was rushed to the nearest hospital only to be taken by an air-ambulance helicopter to the Materno Infantil en Gran Canaria where even the specialised efforts of the medical staff were unable not save its life.
The parent had simply forgotten that the baby was in the car, sleeping, when it was parked, during a heatwave.
This is a tragedy that no marriage can survive and a disaster that typically claims the life of aged grandparents because they have a double blow to deal with; the direct loss of their grandchild whilst also witnessing their own child suffer an unbearable agony that they have no hope of being able to lessen.
(News: Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands)
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I heard that they’re trying to bring into the law, that babies will be able to travel in the front seat of the car, so that tragedies like this stop happening. We often wonder how people can forget that their baby is in the car. My mum left me in my pram outside the post office in Huddersfield and got on the bus. A neighbour spoke to get and asked if my granny was looking after me. My mum screamed at the driver to stop. When my mum returned to the post office, I was still there. This is 60 years ago.