Weird.
Is an Escape anything like a Prius? I could possibly see how one might forget that the Prius was on, as it makes next to no noise while on battery power. I'm not that familiar with them, but my grandfather has one and one day I didn't even notice he was pulling up behind me. It's very quiet.
But a couple things concern me: the keys on the counter, and what was her daughter doing in the kitchen? Where was the mother? I would think if she was feeling poorly and needing help, she'd go to her mother first. Why is the dog alive?
Maybe it's like another poster said. She couldn't get the engine to stop, and like ..misguided...generator owners, she closed the garage door so no one would drive off in the car. Common sense, though, would seem to prompt one to call somebody. I would not sleep well knowing my car was parked in a garage, Carbon Monoxide worries or no. I'd wonder about the car overheating, or catching fire. Maybe she underestimated the length of time it takes a car to run out of gas. It doesn't happen fast; my husband recently told me a story about how he got locked out of his car with the engine running (this was in cold Michigan, not hot Florida) and the car still ran for eight hours on less than a tank of gas. An idle car doesn't burn fuel quickly, but one with the AC on does. In Florida, you can't not use your AC this tme of year. Did she turn the air off? Around here, we don't manually turn it off before parking the car.
Questions, questions.
