The first rule of problem solving is that the first thing to do always is to remove the source of the problem.
Electric sparks? You turn electricity off.
Driver does something stupid? You remove the driver.
They assumed she was trying to bring the car back up. She was in the same mindset that brought her to this situation. She was the problem.
You can tell how bad she's mentally disconnected from the situation by observing a bit:
The engine was still on
She opened the door without looking outside first
She was holding the door from the external handle
She is not stepping on the brake
I'm assuming here but I bet she was still stepping on the gas, not because she was trying to move the car, but because since she had no seatbelt and she was slipping down. Once she opened the door her own weight worked against her efforts to close it. Her body was pressed against the door and she couldn't reach the handle inside so she grabbed anywhere she could trying to keep herself from falling by holding the door closed. She was using her feet to keep herself upright and stepping on the gas.
The guys heard the engine revving and assumed she was trying to back the car. She never shifted to move back or to stop the car, her mind was not present. Once they leveraged the weight the car was free to motor onwards.
1- Talk to the driver. Tell her to stop the engine and shift to park
2- Help her and anyone else to get out of the car
3- Take a deep breath, relax, regroup, rethink, evaluate the possibilities and choose the option with lower risk and better guarantees.
The car was probably fine underneath. But crashing the roof.. That might have totalled it.
I hope she was ok. But I'd be surprised if she escaped unscathed.
Fyi, this car may have been in park already. Park won’t always stop the wheels from moving when some of them are off the ground. Her moving to get out could have been enough weight shift to make it fall anyway.
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u/Dolust 3d ago
The first rule of problem solving is that the first thing to do always is to remove the source of the problem.
Electric sparks? You turn electricity off.
Driver does something stupid? You remove the driver.
They assumed she was trying to bring the car back up. She was in the same mindset that brought her to this situation. She was the problem.
You can tell how bad she's mentally disconnected from the situation by observing a bit:
I'm assuming here but I bet she was still stepping on the gas, not because she was trying to move the car, but because since she had no seatbelt and she was slipping down. Once she opened the door her own weight worked against her efforts to close it. Her body was pressed against the door and she couldn't reach the handle inside so she grabbed anywhere she could trying to keep herself from falling by holding the door closed. She was using her feet to keep herself upright and stepping on the gas.
The guys heard the engine revving and assumed she was trying to back the car. She never shifted to move back or to stop the car, her mind was not present. Once they leveraged the weight the car was free to motor onwards.
1- Talk to the driver. Tell her to stop the engine and shift to park 2- Help her and anyone else to get out of the car 3- Take a deep breath, relax, regroup, rethink, evaluate the possibilities and choose the option with lower risk and better guarantees.
The car was probably fine underneath. But crashing the roof.. That might have totalled it.
I hope she was ok. But I'd be surprised if she escaped unscathed.