Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Runaway Car

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNATTENDED WHILE THE ENGINE IS RUNNING, OR ELSE IT MIGHT RUN AWAY

Too much to do, too little time. Get up at 6 am. Get dressed for work. Get the kids dressed. Have breakfast. Pull the car out the garage. Run into the house. Round up the kids. Where is the wife? Hurry we must leave or we will be late for school and work! Out the house we go.

Sounds like the happenings in an average suburban home.

Looking towards where I last spotted the car. Not a pretty sight. I am sure I parked the car in the road. I was only in the house for a few seconds. Now the car is gone.

Upon further investigation the car was found 100 meters down the road parked in someone else’s garden. This is what may happen if you leave your vehicle with the engine running and the handbrake down. You laugh; these are real things which happen. Anyway besides the fact that the vehicle may drive off without a driver, someone could easily steal the vehicle.

One of the most important rules of the road for the learner licence test is that you never leave your vehicle unattended while the engine is running.

Can you imagine how embarrassing it must be to have to explain to your neighbour what your vehicle is doing parked in his garden?

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