A woman was seriously hurt after she got out of her car with the engine still on only for it to run her over three times. The 45-year-old woman had stepped out of her vehicle in the residential area in order to get something out of the boot but then car, which was on a slight slope, began rolling backwards. It struck the woman, who hasn't been named, and she fell to the street in St Gallen, Switzerland. The car had then rammed into another vehicle and rebounded back in the opposite direction, running over the woman a second time, police said on Friday. However the car then hit the pavement, sending it back towards the woman and running her over a third time, before finally hitting a wooden barrier and coming to a halt. The accident happened in St. Gallen. Switzerland ( Alamy Stock Photo) The woman was sent to hospital in a serious condition, according to Swiss news agency ATS. It comes after a lorry driver was crushed to death when he forgot to turn on the handbrake in an industrial estate in Foston, Derbyshire, in September 2020. Gordon Phillip Moxon, 65, was pinned by his own HGV against the rear of another lorry in the tragedy. An inquest into his death last year heard Mr Moxon suffered multiple injuries, including fractured ribs, a fractured spine and a lacerated liver. The experienced lorry driver had either not heard, or had ignored, an automated warning telling him the handbrake to his cab had been left off when he left the vehicle, the inquest at Derby Coroner's Court was told. Sabyta Kaushal, assistant coroner for Derby and Derbyshire, read evidence from a police report, which stated Mr Moxon was unaware the vehicle was moving when he walked past it.){kind=link}
The 45-year-old woman suffered serious injuries after she got out of the car with the engine still on in St Gallen, Switzerland
A woman was seriously hurt after she got out of her car with the engine still on only for it to run her over three times.
The 45-year-old woman had stepped out of her vehicle in the residential area in order to get something out of the boot but then car, which was on a slight slope, began rolling backwards.
It struck the woman, who hasn’t been named, and she fell to the street in St Gallen, Switzerland.
The car had then rammed into another vehicle and rebounded back in the opposite direction, running over the woman a second time, police said on Friday.