Sisters campaign for carbon monoxide alarm in cars

The sisters of a antheral who died of c monoxide poisoning successful his car are campaigning for it to beryllium a ineligible request for detectors to beryllium fitted successful UK vehicles.

Michael Barnard, 36, from Barrow, was recovered dormant successful August 2023 aft helium had been listening to euphony with the motor moving and the state had leaked from a spread successful the exhaust.

Lucy and Rebecca Barnard are trying to rise consciousness of what they telephone the "silent killer".

Lucy Barnard said losing her member was "one of the hardest things" she had faced.

More than 500 radical person signed a petition acceptable up by the sisters to alert radical to the dangers of the gas, which kills astir 60 radical successful the UK each year.

Miss Barnard said: "When my member went for a thrust that nighttime helium didn't cognize his car would instrumentality his beingness and helium died unsocial and that is thing arsenic a household we volition ne'er beryllium capable to travel to presumption with.

"In the UK cars are not legally required to transportation c monoxide detectors and I privation to alteration that."

Carbon monoxide has nary odor oregon colour and can origin superior illness, oregon death, if inhaled.

Car exhausts are checked for the level of c monoxide emissions during an MOT.

President of the foundation CO-Gas Safety, Stephanie Trotter, is besides calling for a mandatory cheque of the aerial wrong the car.

She said: "At the moment, we recognize that lone the exhaust gases are tested and person to beryllium wrong definite limits.

"But, if determination is simply a spread successful the level of the car, fumes from the motor tin leak into the country for the operator and passengers."

Lucy Barnard said, successful the 4 months anterior to her brother's death, helium had driven 10,000 miles.

"The grief I person carried with maine since the greeting of 17 August is thing I ne'er privation anyone to person to endure," she said.

"My member was driving his car for weeks upon weeks unbeknown to him that his assemblage was dilatory being poisoned with a precise deadly soundless killer."

Rebecca Barnard said, erstwhile she received the quality her member had died, she was 8 months pregnant.

"It deed maine precise hard and I struggled," she said.

"My member didn't get the accidental to go a dada oregon person a household and that's thing helium truly wanted successful life."

"Even if this run saves 1 beingness we would beryllium happy," her sister added.