1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Collision" , the act of a motor vehicle coming into contact with an object or a person; (2) "Injures" , to cause physical harm to the body of a person; (3) "Motor vehicle" , any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, or any motor bus or motor-propelled vehicle not exclusively operated or driven on fixed rails or tracks; (4) "Unattended" , not accompanied by an individual fourteen years of age or older. 2. A person commits the offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the first degree if such person knowingly leaves a child less than eleven years of age unattended in a motor vehicle and such child fatally injures another person by causing a motor vehicle collision or by causing the motor vehicle to fatally injure a pedestrian. 3. Leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the first degree is a class C felony. 4. A person commits the offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the second degree if such person knowingly leaves a child less than eleven years of age unattended in a motor vehicle and such child injures another person by causing a motor vehicle collision or by causing the motor vehicle to injure a pedestrian. 5. The offense of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
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