DANGEROUS PRACTICE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 8

DANGEROUS PRACTICE

♦- LOCKING CHILDREN IN CARS The practice followed by some parents of locking voting children in closed cars while thev’ do their shopping was recentlv described bv a traffic inspector as being “both foolish and dangerous.” Speaking to a Dominion reporter on the subject, the inspector said that he was certain that one day a serious accident would happen, and would bring parents to their senses and make them a little more careful. The greatest danger, he said, was that of fire. ’ It was always quite possible that a petrol tank would start a leak, and it only needed one lighted match, or one glowing cigarette biitt thrown on to the saturated ground to set the car in flames. A young child locked in the car would have no possible chance of escaping. There was always the danger, too, of a collision, which might result in injuries to anvone in a car. Unless the owner could be found there would be little hope of opening the door for the purpose of attending to whoever was inside the car.