DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5242, 22 February 1928, Page 3

DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

LOCKING CHILDREN IN CARS. The practice followed by some parents of locking young children in closed cars while they do t'heir shopping was recently described by 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 anc| make them 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 butt 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 anyone in a car. Unless the owner could be found there would be little hope of opening the door f°r the purpose of attending to whoever was inside the car.