Italy wants technology to avoid infant death in hot cars
Italy has demanded that children's car seats be fitted with an alarm, so parents do not forget they have left their babies strapped inside hot cars, after a spate of infant deaths.
According to a report in Daily Mail, Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Transport, said that by making a minor change to legislation, and enforcing the use of technology, children's lives could be spared.
Toninelli, in a blog, explained: 'A small change to Article 172 of the Highway Code can be fundamental to save the lives of our children, to prevent a tragedy from a trivial distraction that marks forever a father, a mother, a family.
Let's talk about the cases of children forgotten by their parents [left in their] car.'
He said that what started out as a 'small mistake' – leaving infants in hot vehicles –...