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Last updated on Tuesday, June 5, 2018
(ANDERSON) - Detectives with the Anderson Police Department are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 3-year-old girl who they say may have been inside a car for several hours.
Police say the girl, identified as Hannah Grace Miller, was found unresponsive inside a car in the 1900 block of West 10th Street Sunday evening. She had been inside the car for about two hours.
Her father found her in the car and immediately started performing CPR. She was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Regional Hospital at 6:40 p.m. Sunday, according to the Madison County coroner.
The coroner says the child's cause of death was acute heat exhaustion/overheating. No additional trauma was found and no foul play is suspected at this time.
Anderson Police Department Major Joel Sandefur said they were still in the early stages of the investigation and are working to gain a clearer picture of what happened.
No criminal charges have been filed. Sandefur said the parents have been cooperating with the investigation.
KidsAndCars.org says Indiana ranks in the top 30 states with the most child hot car deaths. Indiana has seen 11 such cases since 1997.
So far this year, eight hot car deaths have been reported with four others pending coroner confirmation, the group says.
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