Infant Rescued from Sweltering Vehicle
South Brunswick Police rescue 18 month old from locked vehicle. At 11:20am officers responded to the Nassau Square townhouse complex off of Route 27 for a child locked in a car. Officers arrived and found a distraught mother near her Honda CRV in a parking lot of the complex. The mother said she stopped in the complex to drop something off to a friend and exited her vehicle. She thought she left the vehicle running with the air conditioner on as she walked the ten feet away to her friend’s front door. The mother returned minutes later and realized the vehicle was off and locked with her keys inside. Her 18 month old daughter was in a child seat in the back seat.
Sergeant Eric Buraszeski determined the child had been in the vehicle for 20 minutes and temperatures outside were exceeding 90 degrees. He immediately broke a rear passenger window and was able to get the child out of the hot vehicle. Officers took the child into the friend's home and cooled the crying child down with water.The child was transported by South Brunswick EMS to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for an evaluation.
Police are urging residents to be aware of the how quickly temperatures will climb inside their vehicles during this extreme heat. Chief Raymond Hayducka said, “In this heat it will only take minutes for someone left inside a vehicle to suffer heat exhaustion or heat stroke. In this case officers were able to quickly intervene and rescue this child. “
There are no charges in this incident.
