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Local Amin Moussa told 9News the father of the girl started screaming when he found his baby unresponsive in the back of the car.
Executive officer at Kids Safe NSW Christine Erskine said the often deadly mistake of leaving a child inside a car happens all too often.
“Nobody intends for this to happen, it’s just an awful, preventable tragedy,” she said.
“We find that this happens when there’s an interruption or a change in plan.
“The NRMA last year reported about 1900 near misses – that’s a lot.”
She said temperatures inside cars can increase to deadly conditions extremely quickly.
“Even in cooler times or under a tree, that temperature in a car can escalate very, very quickly,” she said.
“It might be 30 degrees outside – well, it would be 70 degrees in the car very quickly.”
The girl’s father was taken to hospital suffering shock.
The child’s mother is also helping police.
Police said they were looking into the timeline of what happened and would speak to the child’s father when they were able to.
