Hey Man, tough story... Main thing is you are OK!! Cars can be repaired.....(and nice ones they are) The Big Guy upstairs was watching over you ! Cheers, Bob
Sorry your car had damage, but that can be repaired. just glad you weren't hurt any worse. Best of luck to you. Hope you feel better soon.
Dont mind my remark up top .Your lucky ,Many people have died getting pinned or crushed by a car ,Count your blessings someone was watching over you /John
Glad you are ok. I live in a rural area, know of several people getting run over and killed starting tractors with bad starter solenoids by jumping the solenoid with a screwdriver, have done that myself but no more!
Glad you are OK. Nothing like loosing a leg or two wow you got lucky your woman was there. I have been run over buy a pickup years ago while out fencing for the refuge. Alternator went out truck battery was weak did not think she was going to start again. I went through some nasty stuff and shift linkage fell off so i thought id climb under and put it in neutral. Yep you guessed it straight to reverse and in low range idle set up a little high truck went back fast all i could do is pull my body under truck. front pumpkin drug me for 20+ feet or so backwards before it drove me far enough into the ground all i could think was my legs were going to snap off. i don't do fence no more and that was it. i told the boss we are done for the day when i caught back up with him. glad you are ok man hope you heal up fast and get her fixed again.
I had something similar happen to me recently, I was tuning the engine in the detached garage, I had gotten in the car to power brake through the gears to see how she did on a load. I shut her down to hook the vacuum advance back up and then reached in through the window to start it and apparently my sorry z-gate shifter hung in reverse but showed in park. She took off in reverse with me hanging out of the window, the car was heading straight into the house and to make matters worse the garage door only has about 5 inches of clearance on either side, somehow it squeezed me through hanging out of the window of the car, luckily I was able to reach the brakes with my hand before it crashed through our dining room. No where near as traumatic as what you went through but I certainly had a foot long black welt down my back to my rear. I quit smoking a year prior to this incident and I think I could have gone through a carton after all of that, I couldn't stop shaking for at least an hour and my back and bum hurt so bad I couldn't sit down. Glad to hear you made it though, it could have been a lot worse, the good Lord was lookin' out for ya. Sent from my iPhone 4 using TJJ
your really lucky one of those bullet dagmar's didnt puncture that artery in your leg.. ya could have bled to death before anyone knew what happened.. maybe thats what the hole in the back side of your knee is from?
and that reminds me.. I was pinned between a leaf blower and a truck.. with a commercial lawn mower.. got a lever jammed about 1" into my shin.. damnedest thing.. the most painfull part of it all.. was the shot of Novocaine at the hospital so they could s***ch me up.. couldn't believe all that blood was commin outa me..
Years ago I had a beater truck that someone had removed the neutral safety switch and loosely tied the wires togather,every now and then it would not start so I would go under the hood and jump the solenoid and get in and go. One day it would not start at a gas station so I jumped the solenoid and it slipped out of park into reverse with the door open and a car behind it so it took off but I was lucky it did not have a air cleaner so I put my hand over the carb and it stopped,shortly after I replaced all the froze up parking brake cables and found the wires that had been rigged.
I was happy to help out Dave. Plus I got to watch as they flushed all that gunk out of your leg. And the whole time this was going on, you were just worried that you'd busted one of the teeth on your Chevy's grill! Thank God Babs was home when this happened! Adam
You were lucky. A good college friend of mine died from that exact thing about 20 years ago. He was jumping the starter terminals at a gas station when it happened. The car knocked him off his feet and crushed his chest against a crash post. Since that day, I've never wired anything automatic without a foolproof N/S switch....
Glad you're ok, but there's somethings I do as habit. I always check to make sure the cars in park (even my own) and before starting, I put my foot on the brake. I drive for a living so it's a habit with me.
Glad your going to be ok. I try to make sure its in park for auto or in gear for a manual and brake on. Well yesterday I was working under my chevy truck, the shifter linkage was loose and I wiggled it around and it came out of park and started to roll. Scared me till it stopped when it hit the wheel block I put under the tire. Next up, adjust the emergency brake!
*cough cough* i say the ford took it in the rear end and appeared ok with it. You can take that how ya want.
Glad you're ok man. I havent done this one yet myself but dumb stuff is a daily event for me. still, appears everyone got out of this one ok!
i had an old gmc brigadier truck in the shop we were working on once.it had a 6-71 detroit engine and one of the mechanics started it and it the engine started racing,he hurried and turned the key off but the engine kept running.afraid it was going to blow up he put his hand over the air intake tube and it instantly ****ed the skin off his entire hand up to the wrist.we all do crazy stuff without thinking about the consequences.stories like yours and mine are good teaching tools.i know now to make sure its in park and now everybody who reads this also knows you cant stop an engine by hand.glad your o.k.
Ouch! **** happens but the important part is you will be ok ... the cars can be repaired when you heal up. Sounds like the biggest casualty was your pride and joy got bent a little.
I had a similar accident ( truck starting in gear) Christmas Eve night. My crew cab dually pinned me to the back wall of the garage. I haven't been able to get out there to look but my son tells me that three wall studs got pushed off the bottom plate Lucky for me my son and son in law were there to get me out. I have 4 fractures of the pelvis and am using a walker to get around. I spent 18 days in the hospital.. Docs say 2-3 months to get right again.
WoW, thats crazy, You definitely have an angel watchin over you and your wife, what if she wasnt able to hear, so many ifs glad you're alright and able to tell the tale.
That is real Blood, Sweat &Tears (or Gears). Wow, everyone with the real life lessons of being crushed in this thread and making it out alive are really lucky-wish you all the best. Not quite the same, but one time my sister came home in our parents car pissed about something. so, when she parked it in our steep driveway she did not fully put it in park when shut it off, without setting emergency brake. As soon as she got out it rolled back down the driveway and down the street backwards into a ditch and stood upright on rear bumper before dropping forward down onto all four. another lucky no one was hurt or killed deals (at least till our Dad came home-Ha!). Heard from a buddy that came up with a way of using the brake light switch as a type of neutral safety switch. when I get details on wiring will post it up.
Glad you were'nt hurt two bad.If that had happened to me I don't think I would have talked much about it.When I was a kid I was helping my step dad clean his shop out washing cars and the floors when the last one would'nt start an old dodge r.v. van front junker well pops rolled under on a creeper crossed the starter and you know it thing was in reverse it ran right over his mid chest it tore his levi's from his **** down his inseam to his knees Dr. said that old wooden creeper saved his life.
Another of my dumb stunts was I had a 55 olds on ramps to get the brake booster off (under the steering column) and moved the linkage to get it out and the car rolled down on me and pinned me under the frame on a creper,the parking brake did not work and I forgot to block the wheels and it was a good thing the garagre door was down as thats what stopped the car. Bruised ribs and I noticed the next day the wooden creeper was broken.
This happens more often than you think guys. Be careful!! Two stories... First is how I came into my non-Hamb 79 460 Ford pickup. A Doctor friend was unloading some stuff from the back of the bed during the winter. Because of the snow he parked on the road, put the truck in park and went to unload some stuff real quick before running off on a house call in Pa. (He still did house calls and was in his 70's!) Except - he didn't put it in park but reverse. The shift indicater was loose and the trans was a little low in fluid so he probable thought it was in park. By the time he walked to the back, the truck took off and ran him over killing him. The truck was now doing circles in the road as you have seen in some videos on TV. A p***er by rammed their car into the quarter panel pushing it into a snow bank but it was too late. I got the truck for storage & towing fees. Nothing wrong with it except for human error. Second story. I took my sectioned 49 Dodge Wayfarer convert. full custom to a local shop to have a new pancake hood remade. After in the shop several months it was finally done to pick up. Being it sat so long,to get it running the guys cut my harness and ran wires under the hood so they could use a starter ****on while fiddling with the carb, except they cut the wires to the neutral switch doing so. Needless to say, they started it in gear and the car shot across the lot into the shop owners car wrecking the custom grill on it in the process. See photo and the idiot wires. In disgust, I parked the car in my building as you see it and haven't had the heart to do anything with it for many years now. ALWAYS stand off to the side when running a vehicle!!
That ****s man. Glad you made it. Obviously from the stories in this thread, it's not all that uncommon. I don't have anything to contribute. Most of my near misses concern failing brake equipment.
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