I was shoveling the snow in my driveway. I hear the usual noise coming from my neighbors across the street, which I ignore. I hear a little cursing, which isn't out of the ordinary. Then it gets louder and more serious. I glance over, only to find the group scattering before their own minivan driving toward them, and then crashing into a pile of snow.

I'm only slightly alarmed by the fact that one of them could have been hurt. Guess that makes me a bad neighbor. I glance through the windshield to see who was driving.

What? A baby?

Yes. A baby alone in the minivan put it in gear and drove through his family and crashed into the snow.

How? Why?

I badly wanted to know, but to know I'd have to ask, and they probably wouldn't have an explanation, so I opted to stay on my side of the street.

Everyone's lucky that pile of snow was there. Stopped the van, but gave just enough to protect the child.

ugghhh, too much like a day at work for me

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what?!

where the heck do you work?

RN.... registered nurse? hospital?

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I wasn't there when it happened, but my in-laws and one of my own kids were involved.

To answer your question on how this could happen?

Irresponsible adults.

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My wife is an RN, usually there are not bad kids. Just bad parents.

Social Worker...on an inpatient psych unit at the moment.

17 years of human service work and you see a lot.

i can understand that.

Our truck has a safety feature to prevent that. You have to have the brake pressed down to move it out of park.

my car does the same.

it was a chrysler minivan. maybe dodge. same thing behind the badge anyway.

Yep, ours is a '04 Dodge Ram.