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Related: About this forumThree year old driver kills two year old child.
Another one of those stories where a parent left a child in a car with the engine running. Not sure how common this is, but I've seen it before.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/20/us/california-gas-pump-truck-child-death/index.html
3catwoman3
(25,344 posts)Never ever.
This is one of them.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,544 posts)Plus, I'll bet they didn't engage the emergency brake. Owners of automatics try to convince me that putting it in Park is good enough. No, it's not. I can think of more than one time a car in Park slipped away and people inside were killed.
This is among the reasons I drive a stick.
SarahD
(1,732 posts)Every gas station I've seen has a sign informing the customer that the engine must be turned off at the gas pump.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,544 posts)Also, if you don't leave the car running keeps a car thief from hopping in and taking the car.