When our lives get busy, it can become easy to cut corners in our daily routines. For instance, the technique with which I brush my teeth is not likely to be as refined when I've only been awake for five minutes as it is when I've decided that I should probably go to bed.
However, when certain tasks end up half-done, they can carry some serious consequences no matter how small they seem. Hopefully, that's a lesson that one Minnesota woman has now learned.
As you can see here, he uses a dashcam in his car and on that today, it captured something that he said he wouldn't have believed if he didn't see it himself.
It was hard to make out from a distance, but it seemed that a child in a car seat was sitting in the middle of the road.
The car he was following suddenly had its rear door ajar and both the child and the seat had apparently fallen out during that turn.
It is still unknown how the door flung open like that.
If this man had been on his phone or distracted by his radio for even a couple of seconds, this story would have ended completely differently. Let's see how the rest of this experience unfolded...
He got out of his car and attempted to flag the disappearing car down, but this was also to no avail. The car continued to fade into the distance.
This would also make it more likely for other drivers to notice that something was wrong and approach with caution.
While Mock spoke with the other drivers, he moved the car seat out of the road and briefly returned to his car to park it.
For that reason, the dashcam doesn't capture what happened next, so Mock filled us in via his Facebook post.
However, NBC News also reported that they are seeking to charge her with child endangerment and for failure to fasten a child-restraint system.
After all, the situation could have ended much worse.
The footage may be hard to watch.
His Facebook followers were also quick to point out how lucky it was that he happened to be driving behind them so he could move the little one out of harm's way.
Both statements become abundantly clear once you see the full video below.
It's hard to know for sure what happened, but it is being investigated.
Again, it is hard to say at all whether this was intentional.
Good on you Mr. Mock! You may have saved a life that day.
