Local woman thinks up new kind of car seat

A New Bedford grandmother is hoping a new kind of car seat can help save lives.

Sue Rogers created the ‘Forget Me Not’ safety car seat, an invention that will alert parents who accidentally leave a child in the car.

“They say that the estimate is 398 kids die every year of this and it’s an unnecessary death,” said Rogers.

Rogers creation has sensors that can detect weight to determine that a child is seated. If a driver leaves the car with the child still in the seat, an alarm will sound through both the car and a remote clicker.

“God just put it on my heart so strongly and I had to do it,” said Rogers.

Rogers paid $16,000 to have her idea patented back in 2007.

She says after the recent incident in Quincy where a father accidentally left a one year old in the car, a friend helped push her to move forward with the idea.

Now, the mother of four and grandmother of six is looking to create a prototype and find a manufacture to make the seats.

She wants the seats to be affordable and hopes to get them on the market as quickly as possible.

(C) WLNE 2015