Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Another Avoidable Tragedy

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Marge and Terrance Kuhn thought many times about buying a carbon monoxide detector.

"We looked at them and said, '$25, oh well,' " said Marge Kuhn, 58, of Plum.

Then, in May, Terrance Kuhn, 57, accidentally left his 2003 Cadillac running in the garage and the Kuhns became victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.

She survived; her husband died 13 days later. The county Medical Examiner's Office ruled his death accidental.

The next month, Marge Kuhn bought a carbon monoxide detector.

"I never dreamt of something like this happening," she said.

Cases such as theirs have prompted five states -- Illinois, New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Connecticut -- to enact laws requiring carbon monoxide detectors in homes and apartments.

Automobile exhaust, combined with inadequate ventilation, is responsible for two-thirds of fatal accidental carbon monoxide poisonings. Faulty heating equipment accounts for nearly another third.

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