Child in the drivers seat!?

Question

tell me all of the dangerous things that could happen if a child was to sit in the driver seat of a turned off car and play around. there are no keys in the car.

p.s. i live in a condo and there are these aweful new neighbors with wild children who did this and im looking for MORE dirt to kick them out!

Answer 1

Go did your own dirt!

Answer 2

I would actually call the police for neglect. This is very dangerous as the child could put the car in neutral, turn off the parking break and the car could take off. Are they leaving the kid unattended?  

Answer 3

Well, a child messing around in a vehicle could accidentaly pop the transmission out of park into neutral of an automatic transmission or out of gear of a manual transmission. A child could also realese the parking brake as well. Both of these dangerous actions would give the

vehicle a very good chance of accidentally rolling forward or backward,

causing damage to the vehicle or property, or worse which would be injury or death to a person including the child in the vehicle who was messing around to begin with.

Answer 4

To many to list just call the child protective service department and at least help the child......

Answer 5

Well if the keys arent in the car, you cant take an automatic out of park. So peer inside the door and see if it's a manual. If it's not, then they're safe from it rolling. And if they're in a parking lot, unless some tool is doing 30 mph and hits them dead on, they're probably better off inside the car instead of running around the parking lot.

And the kids probably know how to get themselves out of a locked car if they're grown enough to get inside one.

So that really doesn't sound much more dangerous than letting the kids play outside.

Answer 6

handbrake released and car rolls away is the main danger

leaving the car in gear for the adult to start it could cause a smash

if the car has electric windows, they could squash little fingers

lights turned on and left will flatten the battery

all doors and windows shut on a sunny day = cooked (dead) child

pulling the seat belt out and climbing near it could strangle the kid

can't think of any others right now

Answer 7

Air bag blow up too hard and squeeze the baby , front window smash into pieces , car might hit hard onto the passenger side door .

Answer 8

nothing will happen unless someone slams into the car or hits the front end which would deploy the air bags. but you could get most vehicles in gear with out have keys anyway