VICKSBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office says the three-year-old boy who died after being in an SUV while his father went to the Family Fare grocery store in Vicksburg Tuesday afternoon, died from “prolonged heat exhaustion.”
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine’s Dr. Jayce Deleon says children should never be left alone inside a vehicle due to how quickly the car can heat up.
She says children need more time for their bodies to dissipate heat than adults and are more prone to getting heat stroke.
Temperatures inside a vehicle can rise to 100-degrees within ten minutes if the outside temperature is 80-degrees.
The high on Tuesday was 84-degrees.
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