Daily Insanity: 2 Year-Old Drives Family's SUV

An SUV rolled down the steep driveway of a Rock Hill, SC home last Sunday about 4 p.m. The Chevy Tahoe rolled across five lanes of traffic, hit a ditch and ended up on its side.

A next-door neighbor said, "I saw the car rolling back, then it flipped...and then I saw a baby."

An unidentified witness helped the child from the car and held her until police arrived.

Police and EMS arrived and the 2 year-old girl was checked for injuries; surprisingly, she was uninjured. Police were pretty sure the car and the baby came from the same house...the house across the street with the door open.

They took the toddler and went to the house and eventually upstairs to the parents bedroom. Police found the television on and the parents sleeping. The officer could not wake them up until he banged, loudly, on the bedroom wall.

The 2 year-old toddler's mom, Amy Patty, is upset at "all of you [media] coming here because people will think I'm a bad mother." She said she is also upset because her daughter "could have died".

Patty said she got home from work around 2:30 p.m. and she and her husband fell asleep. She said she thought the car keys were on a hook in her kitchen and that the 2 year-old must have gotten the keys.

It's reported elsewhere the parents said there daughter was watching cartoons when they fell asleep.

There are so many questions and so few answers. How did a 2 year-old get keys from the hook in the kitchen, open the door to the house, open the car door, get into the SUV, and take it out of gear? Were the car keys found in the ignition? Why weren't the bedroom and front doors locked? How long had they been really been asleep? Why were they sleeping so soundly in the afternoon?

No way a 2 year-old did this. Even if she somehow managed to get inside the Chevy Tahoe, how would she depress the brake to get the car out of gear?

Maybe one or both parents came home...intoxicated, left the keys in the car and the car door open. Then went upstairs and "fell asleep". This is one scenario, but it's only speculation.

Regardless of how it happened, the parents are at fault. They should have made sure the child and the home were secure so an inquisitive toddler could not get out. Taking a nap in the afternoon with a 2 year-old up and moving around is completely irresponsible. Both parents should be charged with neglect.

Until more information is available and unless you believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, this story is totally