Mechanic Run Over By Scion xD In His Own Garage | Carscoops

Hatchback driven by co-worker appears to run out of brakes as it drives onto the lift, pinning the mechanic against a tool cabinet

A professional mechanic avoided being sent to the great human scrapyard in the sky when he was mowed down in an accident at his own garage by a customer’s car.

Video surveillance footage from inside the multi-bay workshop opens with a mechanic getting ready to receive a car on the lift. The roller shutter door is up, the lift in the down position and all he has to do is move one of the slidable transverse jacks further back on the main lift.

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But while he’s still tugging on the jack, a Scion xD hatchback suddenly enters stage-left, and immediately we can see that it’s going way too fast. It bounces up the ramp leading to the lift and is moving so quickly that by the time the mechanic realizes what’s happening, he’s only a yard or so from the car’s front end.

He jumps up, instinctively putting his arms out in front of him, but of course he doesn’t stand a chance, even with a car as light as the xD. He’s thumped backwards by the impact with the car like Marty McFly plugging his guitar into the faulty amp at Doc Brown’s house, and thrown right past the end of the lift and into a huge metal tool cabinet.

But that’s not the end of his problems because the car is still moving and it also slams into the garage‘s tool cabinet, leaving the mechanic nowhere to be seen. The driver doesn’t back up, maybe out of panic or because he thinks he’ll do more damage, and instead leaps out of the car, yelling ‘Sam! Sam!”

The driver obviously knows the mechanic, and he’s also wearing white gloves so it seems clear that he’s also a worker at the garage and isn’t just a customer who has mixed up the pedals. The Scion might have suffered brake failure and maybe the brakes were already inoperative and nobody told the driver. But whatever the problem he’s going too fast.

We don’t get to see the aftermath, but the person who posted the footage to Twitter, who claims to be related to someone working at the shop, says that the mechanic escaped without serious injury.

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