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The desperate act of a police officer to try and save a three-year-old boy who died after being left inside a hot car, as temperatures rose to 34C
- The three-year-old boy was found dead in a hot car in Sydney
- Police had to break a window to reach the three-year-old boy.
- The boy had been inside all day, officers heard.
A three-year-old boy has died after being found in a hot car in south-west Sydney where temperatures reached 34C.
It is understood that the officers had to break a window to reach the child.
His distraught father found his son in the car at around 3pm on Thursday at Railway Parade, Glenfield, where he had been parked all day.
Footage from the scene showed people in distress on the ground near the car. A man was shown with his face in his hands as he sobbed.
Areas of Sydney recorded maximum temperatures above 30C on Thursday.
Campbelltown, near Glenfield, registered a maximum of 33.9 °C at 4:51 p.m., according to data from the Bureau of Meteorology.
The boy’s father is being questioned by police about the incident.
“Officers with the City of Campbelltown Police Area Command were told the child had been in the vehicle all day,” a NSW police spokesman said.
A crime scene has been established and an investigation is underway into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
“The man has been taken to Campbelltown Police Station where he is assisting police.”
The three-year-old boy was found in a car outside a grocery store in Glenfield, south-west Sydney.
Relatives of the boy were seen collapsing at the scene as the boy was pronounced dead.
The boy’s relatives were seen collapsing at the scene of the tragic death.
NSW Police confirmed the death as it was revealed officers had to break a window to reach the child.
Temperatures have been hot in the Glenfield area recently and reached 34C in the suburb on Thursday.
Child safety advocates Kidsafe claim that over 5,000 children are rescued from hot cars in Australia every year, the majority being babies and toddlers.
“Leaving children unattended in a car, even for a short period of time, can be fatal,” the Kidsafe information reads. website.
“Children are at particular risk because they can lose fluids rapidly, become dehydrated and suffer from heat stroke.”
In December 2015, celebrity chef Matt Moran summoned the media to a cooking demo at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where he prepared a piece of lamb using only the interior heat of a parked car.
“This has been in there for a little over an hour and a half,” Moran said, slicing through the meat in a demo video, “that to me is overkill.”