Boy, three, was choked by car’s electric window

A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy asphyxiated after an electric car window closed tightly on his neck as he played unaccompanied in his father’s car, an inquest heard last night.

The Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard that the Romanian parents of Isac Cirpaci were distraught after his sister found him unconscious and trapped in the window of the Volkswagen Passet out the front of their home in Southbank, Swords, Co Dublin, on April 5, 2004.

The coroner, Dr Brian Farrell, pledged to write to the Department of Transport and relevant authorities to alert them to the boy’s death in a bid to preventfurther similar tragedies.