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What should you do if you lock your child inside car?

December 20, 2007|GEORGE LEWIS

Summertime is usually when people worry most about locking their children inside cars. That's usually when the horror stories happen.

But a Christmastime incident in Hustonville - one with a happy ending - directed attention to what should be done when an accident like this occurs.

According to a 911 transcript and statements made last week in Lincoln Fiscal Court, a Hustonville woman called 911 at 9:37 p.m. Dec. 11, saying she'd locked her 7-month-old child in a car.

The dispatcher at the 911 Center decided against sending emergency medical personnel because the child appeared to be in no immediate danger. The car wasn't running but was inside a garage.

A wrecker headed to the woman's location at 9:40 p.m. but was beaten there by a constable based in Junction City, who freed the child, who later ate and went to bed, and all was well.

The woman thanked dispatchers for their help but the next day complained to Judge Executive Buckwheat Gilbert that the Sheriff's Department had been less than helpful to her the previous evening.

Somehow in the mix, she had been told that the only relief deputies and state police could offer would be to free her child by breaking the window.

Mr. Folger explained to the court that his deputies are not locksmiths. Neither are state police.

Unlocking late-model cars isn't nearly as simple as it used to be, Mr. Dobson observed last week while discussing the incident.

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