@filmfann that’s how I think. It only takes a moment for somebody to jump in your car and steal it if you leave it running. And I have my dad’s old car, and before he gave it to me he had long since lost one of the keys, so I only have the one set. So I certainly don’t want to lock myself out of the car, so the car gets turned off and locked if I’m going further than just cleaning snow off of it.
@JLeslie well considering that she was probably pretty stressed having just had even a minor accident, she may very well have done that because she might not have been focused on doing so. But what a sad, horrible incident!
@jca2 reading your response just reminded me of something that happened to me a number of years ago. I was probably in my early to mid-30s, although I would really have to try and think to figure out exactly. Anyway, I worked at a grocery store in the pricing department and the store was about 30 minutes from where I lived. I think I was still taking college courses and still living at home for a bit. Anyway, I had worked all night and when I left in the morning, it was around 5:00 a.m. and still dark. And the worst thing was that we were having sleet mixed with freezing rain, so my car was quick covered with ice and took a while to clear off. So I had it warming up while I was trying to scrape the ice off the windows, but I was very careful not to close the door all the way because if it had latched, I would have been potentially locked out of my car. Well as I was going around scraping at the windows, I really had to put some oomph into it and in the process, I leaned on the car door too much and it latched closed. At first I thought, I’m pretty sure I left it unlocked, but when I tried the door, it was locked! I didn’t know what I was going to do. My car was running, I really didn’t have money for a locksmith, and the other copy of my key was 30 minutes away at my parents house. But I called my dad and he drove all the way over from the house, in the icy weather, and brought my keys so that I could get into my car and drive home. I’ll never forget that my dad did that for me.