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A Sydney community is in mourning after the "traumatic" death of a one-year-old girl who was found inside a car outside a childcare centre yesterday.
Emergency services were called to Marana Road in Earlwood in the Inner West at about 5.35pm yesterday after the girl was found unresponsive inside the car.
Local Amin Moussa told 9News the father of the girl started screaming when he found his baby unresponsive in the back of the car.
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"Look it's very traumatic, very confronting, very stressful, any parent would be absolutely distressed by what happened," Moussa said.
"My parents lived next door and they were first on the scene when they heard the howls of the father screaming… they were just shocked when they saw the father holding the lifeless body of the one-year-old child.
"The father was beside himself, I think, upon the realisation that the child was left in the car.
"It's sent a shockwave through the community, through the street."
A neighbour rushed to the childcare centre to render first aid to the child while waiting for paramedics.
Locals today left flowers at the scene.
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Executive officer at Kids Safe NSW Christine Erskine said the often deadly mistake of leaving a child inside a car happens all too often.
"Nobody intends for this to happen, it's just an awful, preventable tragedy," she said.
"We find that this happens when there's an interruption or a change in plan.
"The NRMA last year reported about 1900 near misses – that's a lot."
She said temperatures inside cars can increase to deadly conditions extremely quickly.
"Even in cooler times or under a tree, that temperature in a car can escalate very, very quickly," she said.
"It might be 30 degrees outside – well, it would be 70 degrees in the car very quickly."
The girl's father was taken to hospital suffering shock.
The child's mother is also helping police.
Police said they were looking into the timeline of what happened and would speak to the child's father when they were able to.
