Pretty sad state of affairs when your cell phone or handbag is the thing a person would remember, yet a living breathing baby is not amongst those things?
I've never ever forgotten that my child was in the car with me. Never, not once. In fact, every time he would become quite, I would always be glancing in my mirror to make sure he was okay. I cannot fathom forgetting a baby is in the car unless a person is suffering from some kind of mental illness, seriously.
It is very difficult to imagine.
It is very difficult to imagine, but there have been 600 deaths a year I think or maybe since forever, I am not certain? of this precise thing....
When I was real young our babies were put in the front seat....we didn't even have car seats ready available to us unless you were some gazillionaire, we used basins....
since then we moved to car seats and strapping our babies in to them, in to the
back seat....and THIS is when the problem began...
Our minds can play tricks on us, when under stress...I remember running late for a very important meeting because I could not find my keys...even my husband was in a panic for me...he helped look everywhere for them...then maybe 15 minutes later after searching forever and a day by both of us, right there, not even 1 ft from us on the kitchen island were the keys sitting there, PLAIN AS DAY....yet neither of us saw them...we honestly did not see them there...it was MIND BLOWING, and here it is 20 years later and my husband and I still have a discussion and good laugh out of it, wondering if it was actually the twilite zone for real and the keys somehow went in to another dimension temporarily....!!!!
I realize babies are more important than keys, but this was just an example of what stress can do to our minds, and our vision!
I did not read the story in the op link, I know nothing about it, or if this person intentionally did such....
I just know that there have been MANY MORE deaths of infants in cars that TRULY WERE accidents.