COWLEY COUNTY, Kan. — A Kansas toddler died in a hot car earlier this week, authorities said.
According to The Wichita Eagle and KSNW, the incident occurred about 6 p.m. Tuesday outside a home near Maple City in southern Cowley County. The Cowley County Sheriff’s Office said a mother and her 2-year-old son were napping when the child woke up, went outside and got into a vehicle. The mother later found the boy unresponsive in the car, authorities said.
Emergency crews rushed the toddler to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, the news outlets reported.
A preliminary autopsy found that “extreme heat exposure” caused the boy’s death, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
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