Phuket toddler locked alone inside vehicle for 30 minutes

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Phuket toddler locked alone inside vehicle for 30 minutes
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The two-year-old girl is hugged by her mother after being removed from the locked vehicle.

PHUKET: -- A two-year-old toddler was safely removed from inside a locked vehicle parked in front of a grocery store in Talad Neua yesterday (Jan 10) after being locked inside for 30 minutes when she pressed the lock button on the key’s remote from inside the vehicle while her dad was still outside.

She was only removed when her mum brought a spare key from home to unlock the door.

A team from Kusoldharm Rescue Foundation was called at 6pm to respond to an incident in front of grocery store on Ongzimpai Rd where a toddler had accidentally locked herself inside a vehicle.

Upon arrival, rescue workers found a group of residents and tourists attempting to open the car’s door with coat hangers in hope of freeing the child. The vehicle owner, named only as Dam, was pacing worriedly around the vehicle.

Dam told rescue workers that they had been to the store and when they returned to the car he put his daughter inside while he placed the shopping in the boot.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-toddler-locked-alone-inside-vehicle-for-30-minutes-55735.php


-- Phuket News 2016-01-11

[bearpolar]

and the lesson learned wasnt to use a child's seat or actually using the safety belts?

[Renrut]

and the lesson learned wasnt to use a child's seat or actually using the safety belts?

What is that supposed to mean? The car was parked and the child had just been put inside while her father loaded the boot. What have seat belts got to do with this?

[bearpolar]

how is a 2 year old suposed to be able to move around and click on the driver's lock button if he is securely attached with a seat belt? Am i wrong to assume that you leave your children jumping around the cabin while you drive?

[inzman]

If it was my kid, the window would have been removed in 2 minutes. Windows are replaceable, kids are not. Wait I'll go home and find the spare key, ?

[Lannig]

Think twice. Unless the car was parked under the sun during daytime (not the case as per the picture) there's no imminent threat to the kid's health. On the other hand, smashing the window is a risk, unless you think you can make a 2yo kid understand that that he needs to stay away, palm-faced, through the closed doors and windows.

Edited January 11, 2016 by Lannig

[schlog]

Think twice. Unless the car was parked under the sun during daytime (not the case as per the picture) there's no imminent threat to the kid's health. On the other hand, smashing the window is a risk, unless you think you can make a 2yo kid understand that that he needs to stay away, palm-faced, through the closed doors and windows.

It was 6pm so no risk. I guess this were the safest 30min on this day for this toddler. No news here. Move on this happened 100 times every day.

[flyingdoc]

Restraints in any case are surely advisable?

[MaeJoMTB]

Don't put your keys in the car without you.

How hard is that?

[masuk]

If it was my kid, the window would have been removed in 2 minutes. Windows are replaceable, kids are not. Wait I'll go home and find the spare key, ?

Agreed!

[MockingJay]

Discover Thainess at its very finest... risking the life of a child over the price of a car window replacement? Man... what a world

[stevenl]

Discover Thainess at its very finest... risking the life of a child over the price of a car window replacement? Man... what a world

I think the child would have been more at risk had the window been broken.

[Shot]

[Krataiboy]

Why the big headlines and bruohaha over such an insignificant, not even life threatening event? . Every da one can see far worse on Thai roads - women riding motorbikes with one arm on the controls, the other cradling a baby or toddler. Or very young children standing in front of the driver, hanging on to the handlebars, or even standing on the saddle between driver and pillion passenger.

Do Thai parents really give a shi-t about their kids?

[chickenslegs]

Think twice. Unless the car was parked under the sun during daytime (not the case as per the picture) there's no imminent threat to the kid's health. On the other hand, smashing the window is a risk, unless you think you can make a 2yo kid understand that that he needs to stay away, palm-faced, through the closed doors and windows.

It was 6pm so no risk. I guess this were the safest 30min on this day for this toddler. No news here. Move on this happened 100 times every day.

I don't think anyone could argue with that statement.

[smotherb]

how is a 2 year old suposed to be able to move around and click on the driver's lock button if he is securely attached with a seat belt? Am i wrong to assume that you leave your children jumping around the cabin while you drive?

Is it really that difficult to see the other poster's point. The father was not driving with the child jumping around. Sure, hind sight says he should have belted her into the child restraint seat before loading the boot, perhaps he will next time.

[bearpolar]

People who don't strap their small children right away, never do.

Farang or Thai.