VICTORIANS are leaving kids in cars at an alarming rate with paramedics called to 1211 cases in the 12 months to November 2024, with another 230 reports this summer.
Toddlers aged one to three years old make up the most cases [58.3 per cent], and paramedics were called to 127 cases of people locked in vehicles in December, with 21 of those patients treated at the scene and two transported to hospit...