Audi runs over owner

[buy_cheap_pay_later]

I may possibly have had this occur.

I converted my E36 from auto to manual, so it was up to me whether I put an interlock switch in. Obviously I didn't because I'd never be that daft to start it in gear...

Fast forward to a track day, in the paddock. Left in reverse with handbrake off in case of hot brakes binding. For some reason I can no longer remember, decided to lean in and start the engine, forgetting that I'd decided I wouldn't be daft enough to do so. Off it went merrily backwards across the paddock. Fortunately I was able to jump in and stop it, no harm done in the end.

I don't think I'll be making that mistake again though!

[Numpty with honours]

An accountant I knew who loved cars, was killed when his car for reason never determined lurched forward and crushed him to death

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tunbridge-wells/news/...

[ashenfie]

Trif said:

CarCrazyDad said:

He made a mistake. People make mistakes.

Lots of 'mistakes' get prosecuted. He made a concise decision to start his car in a unsafe manner. There is no defence here.

It seams more than that, Manual which can be started with car in neutral, no foot on break or clutch. All points to a unsafely modified car.

[Durzel]

i'm more amazed that it had the grunt to push 2 other cars without stalling.

[Snow and Rocks]

ashenfie said:

It seams more than that, Manual which can be started with car in neutral, no foot on break or clutch. All points to a unsafely modified car.

I think that's a bit of a stretch - the majority of cars on the road, certainly until recently, can be started in gear. Are they all "unsafe" too?

[CarCrazyDad]

ashenfie said:

Trif said:

CarCrazyDad said:

He made a mistake. People make mistakes.

Lots of 'mistakes' get prosecuted. He made a concise decision to start his car in a unsafe manner. There is no defence here.

It seams more than that, Manual which can be started with car in neutral, no foot on break or clutch. All points to a unsafely modified car.

Lots of manual cars from prior to around 2010 didn't need a clutch depressed - I guess they are all unsafely modified

Why are people so dramatic?

[Durzel]

I remember thinking I was cool starting my Astra GTE up in gear on a local trading estate and standing up on the sill "riding" it as it drove itself along.

This sort of crap is entirely the owners fault, barring a mechanical malfunction.