{"id":54463,"date":"2025-05-10T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/sisters-call-for-alarms-in-cars\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:40:40","slug":"sisters-call-for-alarms-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/sisters-call-for-alarms-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters call for alarms in cars"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rebecca Barnard (left) and Lucy Barnard said losing their brother was the “hardest thing” they had ever faced<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The sisters of a man who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car are campaigning for it to be a legal requirement for detectors to be fitted in UK vehicles.<\/p>\n

Michael Barnard, 36, from Barrow, was found dead in August 2023 after he had been listening to music with the engine running and the gas had leaked from a hole in the exhaust. <\/p>\n

Lucy and Rebecca Barnard are trying to raise awareness of what they call the “silent killer”. <\/p>\n

Lucy Barnard said losing her brother was “one of the hardest things” she had faced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 500 people have signed a petition set up by the sisters to alert people to the dangers of the gas, which kills about 60 people in the UK every year. <\/p>\n

Miss Barnard said: “When my brother went for a drive that night he didn’t know his car would take his life and he died alone and that is something as a family we will never be able to come to terms with. <\/p>\n

“In the UK cars are not legally required to carry carbon monoxide detectors and I want to change that.”<\/p>\n

Carbon monoxide has no smell or colour and can cause serious illness, or death<\/a>, if inhaled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael Barnard died in his car of carbon monoxide poisoning due to a leaking exhaust<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Car exhausts are checked for the level of carbon monoxide emissions during an MOT.<\/p>\n

President of the charity CO-Gas Safety, Stephanie Trotter, is also calling for a mandatory check of the air inside the car.<\/p>\n

She said: “At the moment, we understand that only the exhaust gases are tested and have to be within certain limits. <\/p>\n

“But, if there is a hole in the floor of the car, fumes from the engine can leak into the area for the driver and passengers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lucy Barnard said, in the four months prior to her brother’s death, he had driven 10,000 miles. <\/p>\n

“The grief I have carried with me since the morning of 17 August is something I never want anyone to have to endure,” she said.<\/p>\n

“My brother was driving his car for weeks upon weeks unbeknown to him that his body was slowly being poisoned with a very deadly silent killer.”<\/p>\n

Rebecca Barnard said, when she received the news her brother had died, she was eight months pregnant.<\/p>\n

“It hit me very hard and I struggled,” she said.<\/p>\n

“My brother didn’t get the opportunity to become a dad or have a family and that’s something he really wanted in life.”<\/p>\n

“Even if this campaign saves one life we would be happy,” her sister added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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