No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, and removing the key, or, when standing upon any perceptible grade, without effectively setting the brake and turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.
History. Acts 1937, No. 300, § 94; Pope's Dig., § 6751; Acts 1959, No. 307, § 40; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-651.
Cross References. Penalty for violation of 1959 amendatory act, § 27-50-305.
Research References
Ark. L. Rev.
Automobiles - Negligence - Liability of Owner for Negligence of Thief, 9 Ark. L. Rev. 449.
Case Notes
In an action by a father of a four-year-old child for the child's death by being run over by the defendant's motor truck, it was error to instruct the jury that the fact that the defendant's driver permitted the engine of the motor truck to run while he was delivering groceries could be considered as an element of negligence entitling the plaintiff to recover damages, although the action was a violation of law, where there was no evidence showing the injury was the proximate cause of such action. Mays v. Ritchie Grocery Co., 177 Ark. 35, 5 S.W.2d 728 (1928) (decision under prior law).
Where driver parked tractor-trailer on downgrade in close proximity to vehicle in front of him without turning vehicle's wheels to the side of the road or stopping the engine and putting tractor in gear and vehicle rolled forward because of defective brakes and crushed a person, driver was guilty of negligence. Beaty v. Buckeye Fabric Finishing Co., 179 F. Supp. 688 (E.D. Ark. 1959).