Below are some cases of actual life carbon monoxide poisoning in cars that have occurred throughout the world. This is just a fraction of the number of car carbon monoxide poisoning deaths in the world. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the number cause of poisoning deaths in the world. It is estimated that 2.4 million people around the world are poisoned by carbon monoxide annually1.
Couple Found Dead in Car at Multi-storey Carpark in Choa Chu Kang
Channel News Asia (Singapore) - 28 November 2005
A couple was found dead in a car at a multi-storey carpark in Choa Chu Kang on Saturday night. Police received a call at about 9.45pm and found two bodies - one on top of the other - in the front passenger seat which was inclined...
Missing Man Found Dead in Car after Online Appeal
The Straits Times (Singapore) - 5 February 2007
A man in his mid 20s - missing from home for a week and who set online car forums talking about his whereabouts - was found dead on Saturday. He was reclined in his grey Mazda RX-8 on the fifth level of a multi-storey carpark in Jurong West...
Car Enthusiast Killed by Carbon Monoxide Fumes
Western Morning News (UK) - 23 August 2006
A classic car enthusiast has died after being overcome by carbon monoxide fumes as he worked on a car he built himself...
Carbon Monoxide Poisons Children in Car
The Post Standard / Herald-Journal (New York) - 17 December 2005
Two Syracuse children were rescued on Friday morning after they passed out from exposure to carbon monoxide that wafted through holes in the floorboards of a running car, city police said...
Autopsies Show Cop, Woman Die of Gas Poisoning in Car
Bernama Daily (Malaysia) - 4 March 2007
Autopsies on the bodies of a police chief inspector and a woman that were found in a BMW car at the Behrang rest and service area of the North South Expressway yesterday, reveal that they have died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
Man Found Dead in Car
News Straits Times (Malaysia) - 13 December 2006
A taxi driver was found dead in his vehicle outside his home in Pantai Peringgit about 11am yesterday... He is believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
Asthma Patient Found Dead in Car
Malay Mail (Malaysia) - 19 October 2004
An asthma patient was found dead in his car at the Kinta Jaya Light Industrial Estate, off Jalan Gopeng early this morning... The body was sent to Ipoh Hospital where a post-mortem revealed that he had died of carbon monoxide poisoning...
Universiti Malaya Student Found Dead in Car
New Straits Times (Malaysia) - 27 August 2002
A Universiti Malaya second-year Information Technology and Computer Science student was found dead in a car at the faculty's parking lot today...
Deaths in Car: Housewife Now in Critical Condition, Foetus Dead
New Straits Times (Malaysia) - 9 September 2001
A 23-year-old housewife is in critical condition while her seven-month-old unborn baby is dead, one day after her three children suffocated to death in their family car in Jalan Meldrum... The district police chief said the deaths of the three children most likely resulted from carbon monoxide poisoning...
Three Suffocate to Death inside Car
The Times of India (India) - 31 October 2006
A software company owner and his two employees died inside a car after they rolled up the windows in a bid to stay off the swirling rainwater in the early hours of Sunday...
Four Choke to Death in Car
Hindustan Times (India) - 4 September 2006
All four members of a family were found dead in their car on Sunday morning near the Dusshera Ground in Fariabad. Police said that the family appeared to have suffocated to death after inhaling carbon monoxide that might have leaked from the car's air conditioner...
1. Statistics obtained from http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/carbon_monoxide_poisoning/stats-country.htm
