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Melbourne woman run over twice by her own car

By Tim Beissmann |

A Melbourne woman is in a serious but stable condition after she was run over by her own car twice last night.

Fairfax reports the 37-year-old forgot to put on the handbrake after she pulled into her Noble Park driveway.

The car knocked her down as it rolled, injuring her legs and stomach. It then hit a fence and rolled over her again as she lay injured on the ground.

She was taken to The Alfred hospital by intensive care paramedics with pain in her right leg and her hips.

She was treated at the scene with bandages on her grazes, oxygen to help her breath and a drip to stabilise her blood pressure and ease the pain.

Paramedics said the woman was incredibly unfortunate to be run over twice but also very lucky that her injuries, while serious, were not even worse.

After the incident, the woman told paramedics she thought she had engaged the handbrake, but admitted she was clearly mistaken.


 
  • Joker

    Glad to hear she will be ok… could have been a lot worse.
    Someone here has to say it though…. EPIC FA1L…

  • Save It for the track

    Wonder if it was one of these new things (like a Tiguan) that has a ridiculous little switch to flick as the ‘handbrake’. Seems she forgot to put it in gear as well (or park, as the case may be).

  • Crossy

    Is she blonde?

    • katyperry

      yes,

  • HUMAN PEOPLE

    FAIL

    • Crownleyian

      I just love the ironic Fail comments, simple and sarcastic!

  • katyperry

    was it a toyota…

    • DGS

      Oh What a Feeling?

    • j

      It didn’t uncontrollably accelerate when she stepped on the accelerator, so probably not.

  • Valet Dabess

    women…

  • Crownleyian

    Some people are just plain stupid!

    And to know that she shares the road with others is frightening.

  • Think

    Interesting you all comment so easily. Some of us know this woman and her family. Just letting you know, she was very lucky to have survived this.

    Also realise the family of the woman are having to deal with what has happened, trips to the hospital, emotional distress as well as reading the crap people are posting in response to these articles. It’s pretty upsetting.

    Just put yourself in their place right now. It is unfortunate that this entire thing happened but really, it could happen to any of us. A simple slip of focus or concentration.

    If it were your family member, would you appreciate people mindlessly contributing their 2c worth of insult to someone who almost died? Just think about it.

  • Save It for the track

    It would be even MORE upsetting to other peoples families if such an ‘accident’ had happened pn a public street or in a carpark, and an innocent bystander or passer-by ended up run over by someone obviously not putting the vehicle in park (or in gear if a manual), and applying the handbrake.
    .
    Unless the reporting is wrong and there was some sort of mechanical failure.
    .
    If some have more knowledge please elaborate. If she has ‘stuffed up’, well in this age of internet forums and blogs what else can be expected but comment from others. It may distress the family, but as I just pointed out, thankfully it didn’t happen in public and injure somebody else.

  • Al Juraj

    I pity the lady for what happened to her, but it goes to show that Australian driving is plain landfill. Discipline and training are so poor a simple initiative of engaging the handbrake isn’t being done. We focus too much on $peeding. A German driving nearly 300 kph everyday is indeed safer than the typical Victorian.

  • Nina

    This woman is a relative of my friend and all you idiots out there making mean remarks are very insensitive towards what has really happened. This woman ‘forgot’ to put on her handbrakes. It’s not like she always does it or she deliberately does so to put others at risk.
    If your own mother got hit by her own car from her own one-off clumsinessm, will you call your own mother a failure?

    • Handsome Al

      No.. I will not call my mother as a failure, but it will be the family joke for awhile.. especially when you got run over twice..