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Originally Posted by weenie

I drive an automatic.
At a junction I put it in N with hand brake on.
If I come to a stop and about to move off i keep it in Drive and foot on brake.
When I park I put the car in P with handbrake on whereas hubby just parks with the car in P (no handbrake) which really bugs me

Sometimes the parking pawl doesn't engage and then the car can roll away. I remember on a caravan site my father doing this and us sitting in the caravan when the car just took off on its own. My father managed to catch it and get the handbrake on before it wrecked at the bottom of the field. I think he only managed it because the handbrake was on the door side of the car rather than the centre.