The infant became unresponsive in the sweltering car.
Police bodycam footage captured a mother’s anguish at watching her toddler pass out inside a hot car after she locked herself out.
The little girl’s mother accidentally locked her keys inside the car, trapping her ten-month-old daughter Maddie in her car seat as temperatures rose inside.
Police in Stuart, Florida recently released the harrowing footage from late July in the parking lot of a Lowe’s hardware store parking lot.
Christina Tufford said she had been panicking by the time the officer arrived after she she remotely started her SUV, tossed the keys inside, then heard a click.
She told WPBF: ‘That’s when I realized that the keys were now inside, everything was locked and I only had minutes before my truck was going to shut off because the keys weren’t in the ignition.’
Just as the officer greeted her, the engine shut off.
Tufford said: ‘We were on crunch time…and that’s when I really started to panic.’
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The officer called a tow truck driver who tried to unlock to door – but the attempts were unsuccessful.
Tufford even tried to call OnStar. She used to have an account with the vehicle security company, but a representative told her the account had expired and they could not access her vehicle.
Maddie began appearing unresponsive.
Tufford said: ‘Her head was to the side. She was limp. She was sweaty. You could see beads of sweat on her skin.’
The officer gave Tufford his baton and she tried to smash the window, but was unable.
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She said: ‘With all of my scared mommy strength, as hard as I could, I started banging on that window. And I couldn’t break the window.’
After finding a hammer in his police cruiser, the officer returned and shattered the window. Tufford quickly removed her daughter.
‘She was limp. She was lifeless,’ Tufford said of her daughter.
But after some water and some air conditioning, the child returned to her normal cheery self.
‘I gave her some water, poured a little bit on her and she came to and she was happy and fine,’ Tufford said.
