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Florida leads the nation in children dying in hot cars. The 6th death this year was just reported

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM · 1 min read
Florida leads the nation in children dying in hot cars. The 6th death this year was just reported — Wesley Chapel Community news

Little girl sitting in a car on a safety child car seat with her teddy bear.(hedgehog94 / stock.adobe.com)A 1-year-old girl in Homestead died over the weekend after being left in a hot car, according to Kids and Car Safety, a nonprofit that tracks vehicle-related deaths.Saturday's death in Miami-Dade County is the sixth such death in Florida this year, and the 26th nationally. Florida has reported more of these deaths this year than any other state.While temperatures were cooler over the weekend, in the mid-80s, they were still hot enough to lead to death or injury. Since 1990, at least 1,199 children have died in hot cars in the United States and at least another 7,500 survived with varying degrees of injury, according to data compiled by Kids and Car Safety.According to the Miami Herald, Keyner Vazquez de Leon, 22, was arrested on Sunday and charged with manslaughter of a child younger than 18, child neglect, and leaving a child unattended in a car.He is not related to the child, bu

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