Some people leave a stick shift in gear when parking, I've never respected that. I use the parking brake and have never had my car move when I was not in it. Unlike this El Camino which was "thought" to be in gear
It still happens. A dear elderly friend of our family was killed when she drove her pickup out to the city dump (rural area) and parked on a bit of an incline to help slide the trash off, the moving around, tugging and pulling jiggled the truck out of gear and it rolled over her.
I'm rarely shocked by comments. But this knocked my socks off. I grew up with a dump in the middle of a 10 mile stretch between out town of a 100 people, and the next one of a 100 people. I guess 10-15 miles was the distance for watering horses, or model t's, anyway, the dump was midway between the towns, and in the sandy plains, and had been in use for decades, right up until about 1982 or so, when they finally got wise to the fact that the garbage was leaking into the ground water in that area. So, not good, and I seriously doubt anything was done to fix the pollution issue, as it's so damn far from any govt office of ANY kind. Hell, it's 35 miles to the nearet police station. At 55mph speed limit for the area, it takes forever to get anywhere
in gear,handbake on, wheels turned towards kerb ,basic safe parking especially on older cars where rear brakes after long drives would be parked with only the handbrake on,the brakes could cool down reducing the effectiveness of the habdbrake. Leaving in gear held the car failing that wheels turned towards the kerb ensured car would roll into the kerb
One reality from back in the 60's and early 70's is that emergency brake cables would freeze in their housings (they did not have plastic coating on them like they do today) and people did not use them because of the probability of them sticking on and not being able to release them. This lead to using 1st or reverse to hold a vehicle when it was parked. Not saying that this is the right way to do things. It was just how things were back then.
It still happens. A dear elderly friend of our family was killed when she drove her pickup out to the city dump (rural area) and parked on a bit of an incline to help slide the trash off, the moving around, tugging and pulling jiggled the truck out of gear and it rolled over her.
ReplyDeleteI'm rarely shocked by comments. But this knocked my socks off.
DeleteI grew up with a dump in the middle of a 10 mile stretch between out town of a 100 people, and the next one of a 100 people. I guess 10-15 miles was the distance for watering horses, or model t's, anyway, the dump was midway between the towns, and in the sandy plains, and had been in use for decades, right up until about 1982 or so, when they finally got wise to the fact that the garbage was leaking into the ground water in that area. So, not good, and I seriously doubt anything was done to fix the pollution issue, as it's so damn far from any govt office of ANY kind. Hell, it's 35 miles to the nearet police station. At 55mph speed limit for the area, it takes forever to get anywhere
That's the sort of thing I grew up around as well. This poor lady was found a day or so after she had died by the next person who came to the dump.
Deletein gear,handbake on, wheels turned towards kerb ,basic safe parking especially on older cars where rear brakes after long drives would be parked with only the handbrake on,the brakes could cool down reducing the effectiveness of the habdbrake. Leaving in gear held the car failing that wheels turned towards the kerb ensured car would roll into the kerb
ReplyDeleteOne reality from back in the 60's and early 70's is that emergency brake cables would freeze in their housings (they did not have plastic coating on them like they do today) and people did not use them because of the probability of them sticking on and not being able to release them. This lead to using 1st or reverse to hold a vehicle when it was parked. Not saying that this is the right way to do things. It was just how things were back then.
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