A 29-year-old woman may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in her home because her keyless Lexus was running in the garage.
A keyless car may seem like a smart, modern innovation, but it seems to me more like a poorly thought-out idea, turning vehicles into death traps for people who don’t realize their car is still running.
The runaway Toyota Lexus that killed a San Diego family in 2009 was also a keyless ignition model.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website reports, in 2003-2004 data, 147 carbon monoxide poisonings, but it makes no mention of the type of ignition in the vehicle. Perhaps these fatalities will prompt police to note this in future, but it seems strange the NHTSA couldn’t deduce these numbers, given other information about the ehicles involved.
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The woman and her boyfriend were both in the house. He was transported to the intensive care unit at West Boca Medical Center.
When detectives found the vehicle in the garage, the engine was not running.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com has a story about this incident.
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