Two Florida children dead after being left in hot cars during separate incidents

Police in Florida are investigating two separate incidents in which young children have died after being left alone in burning cars.

According to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, a one-year-old girl died after being pulled from a car at a Waha gas station in Sanford, north of Orlando.

Officers were called just before 5pm on Friday, September 28th at a report of a child possibly left in a locked vehicle. When the police arrived at the 4600 block of Highway 46, the girl had already died.

The girl's mother is interrogated by the police. Police said the initial indications suggest that the mother went to work in the morning and forgot that the child was in the vehicle, said the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in a statement.

"We are working closely with the State Attorney's Office and will continue to consult with them as the investigation proceeds. The identity of the mother and the child are not disclosed at the moment, "added the department.

The temperature in Sanford that day reached 94 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service.

The girl was found on the same day that a 4-year-old boy was found unconscious in a locked car in Orange County.

Ford pickup trucks are waiting on the sales pitch at the Metro Ford dealership on December 2, 2008 in Miami, Florida. Two children died in separate incidents after being left in hot cars Friday in Florida. Joe Raedle / Getty Images

The boy was found by a spectator in a car that did not park at the Elite Preparatory Academy. The child was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital where he was pronounced dead, confirmed the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The department said that all those involved in the incident cooperate with the authorities, but did not say whether the child had remained in the vehicle or not.

"Unfortunately, we know how busy we are in our lives. I do not apologize to people about anything, though. There are ways to remember that you have a child in a car. We live in Florida, "said Jeff Williamson, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, at Click Orlando.

Experts suggest that forgetting that a child is inside a vehicle is remarkably common.

"Memory failures are remarkably powerful and they happen to everyone. There is no difference between sex, class, personality, race or other traits, "said Gene Brewer, associate professor of psychology at the USS, at Click Orlando . "Functionally, there is not much difference between forgetting your keys and forgetting your child in the car.

"Cognitive failure occurs because someone's mind went to a new place and his routine was disrupted," he added. "They suddenly think of new things, and that leads to oblivion. Nobody in this world has a foolproof memory. "