as posted on ABCnews
Kidsafe says a two-year-old girl who died after being left inside a locked car in the Perth suburb of Maddington would have been exposed to temperatures of up to 70 degrees.
The temperature in Perth reached just over 34 degrees yesterday, and Kidsafe Chief Executive Sue Wicks says the temperature in the car would have been much higher.
"Yesterday was probably the first really hot day we've had in quite some time ," she said.
"What happens, when the temperature outside increases, [and] the car is closed up, the temperature inside increases as well. It can be anything up to 30 or 40 degrees [higher] inside the car than outside."
Police says it appears a sibling found the body of the two-year-old girl.
They say it appears the parents returned to their Maddington home yesterday afternoon and left the child in the car before taking another vehicle to pick up their older children in Fremantle.
Police say they realised the child was still in the car when they could not find her in the house.
Inspector Trevor Davis says their attempts to resuscitate the girl failed and she had died by the time paramedics arrived.
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