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Brian Reynolds, a 40-year-old inhabitant of Lynn, Massachusetts, improvised a method of stopping his truck when the brakes failed. He stuck his foot out of the door and tried to stop it that way, as if he was riding a bike rather than driving a few tons of American metal.
Sadly for Brian, that didn’t work, and when he spun his 1987 Chevy truck around in an attempt to run it up a nearby hill and slow it that way, the swift change of direction saw him fall out of the open door. The truck then ran over his leg and carried on alone, eventually hitting a fire hydrant and coming to a halt.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the cops then fined him $35 for driving a truck with defective brakes. [Boston via Jalopnik]
Image credit: Car accident from Shutterstock
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He should be charged for the fire hydrant, and destroying public property too.
I read that as public puberty.
There should be a charge for that too. Some teenagers and parents definitely deserve it
$35 seems very little for being so utterly irresponsible
Am I a bad person for immediately thinking “so THATS how Oliver from the Twit Race ran himself over!”?
Didn’t Harvey from East 17 do that too? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4597607.stm
Looks like a scene from The Dark Knight Rises.
Only $35? Unless he didn’t realise his brakes failed beforehand, he should be fined more.