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Originally Posted by triplebird
Parent leaves very small child in a running vehicle, child gets caught in power window, then parent goes on national TV to blame not just the manufacturer of her vehicle, but also Transport Canada for "allowing" power windows that lack an auto-reverse:
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When I was 5 we had a Datsun pick up. My mom left me in it while she ran into the store for a minute. This was a small town and the store was about the size of a living room. The owner lived above it. It was raining this day, and my mom was taking longer than my attention span allowed, so I tried to turn on the windshield wipers to see if she was close to coming out.
They didn't turn on. I thought about it for a second, and realized that the engine had to be running to make them work, so I started the truck. It was in gear and jumped forward into the front of the store. No damage or injuries, but that was more luck than anything. Modern cars won't start in gear unless the clutch pedal is depressed, but it's still one more in the long line of examples of why kids should never be left alone in a car before a certain age.
It wasn't the fault of the car, or the car-maker. It was my fault for starting the car, and my mom's fault for allowing me to be in a position where I could do something stupid and virtually unexpected.
Could be worse though. I had a friend who was left in a car while it was running. He kicked it into drive, causing it to go down a hill and rear end a police car. He was about 18 months old at the time.