Every year we hear tragic stories of babies and young children dying in hot cars, breaking our hearts with the helplessness we feel in light of such preventable deaths. This isn't one of those!

Earlier this week in MicKinney, Texas, Roshell Steakley was leaving Target when she noticed a baby boy strapped in his car seat in the rear of a vehicle. Noticing that the baby appeared red and sweaty, she stopped and looked, realizing that no one else was in the car. Steakley immediately called 911 and called for help, and Brittnie Johnston came to her aid. CBS DFW talked to both women.

“We’re frantically trying to get the doors open. We look around. There’s no one around. The doors are locked. We’re freaking out,” Johnston said.

“I’m on the phone with 911, and they asked me to wait on the authorities, and I said ‘no, I’m breaking the window,’ and they said, ‘well ma’am that’s your choice,’ and I said, ‘okay I’m breaking the window,’ ” Steakley said.

The women used a tow trailer hitch to break a window, and one crawled inside to the baby while the other opened the back door. By this time, first responders arrived, and soon after the mother came out of Target and discovered her horrible mistake:

"All of a sudden once we’re talking to the police and the paramedics, the mother walks out of Target, like walks out of Target and says, "oh my gosh, I forgot my baby in the car; I’m sorry,"' Johnston told reporters.

The nice thing about this story (aside from the whole baby-saving thing), is that even though they she was a witness to the baby in distress, Steakley, also a mother, is sympathetic, telling reporters that 27-year-old Kimbery Rosario was "devastated," and how when she realized what she'd done, "She fell to her knees."

According to KidsAndCars.org, the most dangerous thing you can do as a parent is assume that this is something that can't happen to you.

It can happen to anyone. It happens to doctors, judges, rocket scientists, college professors. To the people we trust most as a society with our children: principals, teachers and day care workers. To mothers and fathers who take all precautions to protect their children.

"You look into some of these parents and they’re the best people, pillars of our society," says Janette Fennell, founder and president of Kids And Cars. "You don’t want to find out the hard way that this can happen to anyone."

Steakley echoed this sentiment, telling CBS, "Everyone says, how do you forget your child? I mean it happens to everyone of every walk of life."

KidsAndCars says that education on the neurological processes behind forgetting children in cars is one key factor in preventing these deaths: "Parents and caregivers must know about how an overtaxed brain can fail." If you don't know it's possible for you, the supposed perfect parent, to forget your child in the back seat, you won't be on guard against it happening.

Kimberly Rosario was arrested following the incident in Texas, and we don't know how it happened that she forgot her son in the car that day. Many, many people will say it was due to neglect and she should lose custody. I'm sure there are hundreds of parents of children who lost them in hot cars who would gladly give up custody if it meant their child were still alive.