A mum had a frantic few minutes this summer when she accidentally locked her keys and phone in her car - with her baby.
The case was one of 5100 lockout jobs the Automobile Association has attended since December 1 - that's more than 100 a day. And they attended 34,672 for all of last year.
"We had a mum who ... dropped her keys into her handbag on the passenger seat and left it there so she could get her baby out first," said AA roadservice national manager John Healy. "She shut the door behind her and the vehicle locked with her baby, keys and phone all inside the car.
"Thankfully she managed to borrow a phone and get in touch with us and we had her baby out of the car within minutes."
He said people often threw their routine out the door and forgot where they left their keys, which could be dangerous.