In this movie a car accident occurred where a child was killed as the car burned. Prior to the accident the children in the car tied one of the other children's shoe laces together while the child slept. As the car burned from the accident, the one child was unable to escape. Since then the family has been suffering many other tragedies.

It's Don't Go to Sleep (1982) (TV) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083844/)