Mechanic killed after Jeep ‘lurched forward’ following oil change. Vehicle owner sued

The Charlotte Observer ^ | May 5, 2022 | Kaitlyn Alanis

[gitmo]

My jeep is automatic but it won’t even turn over until a butt is firmly behind the wheel.

I'll have to try that out on my vehicle.

[katana]

Idiot “lube technician” (what a title) probably turned on the ignition and popped the clutch with his colleague still working on the engine. That would definitely cause a manual transmission vehicle to “lurch”. And the relatives of the deceased must be even dumber. Who’s the employer of the aforementioned idiot and who’s going to have the deeper pockets? A Jeep owner or the Oil Change business?

[Mears]

Young actor Anton Yelchin was killed when his Jeep lurched.

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[gitmo]

If you press them all at the same time it does a reset on the car back to factory settings.

If you do that once a week, you never have to change the oil.

[Beagle8U]

The Lawyer that filed the case is going to name everyone involved in hope that some of them will have a pot of gold.

The shop owner and the jeep owner’s INS company will both be forking out some cash.

[BiteYourSelf]

If they can hold gun manufacturers libel for misuse of a gun then they can hold car manufacturers libel for misuse of cars.🙄

[bigbob]

Maybe because he has pockets at least deep enough to afford a Jeep.

[SkyDancer]

It’s due to the sue crazy society we live in.

[SkyDancer]

Even if someone was watching standing around drinking coffee while the accident happened.

[Vigilanteman]

If anything, the dealership should be liable. How many 19 year old employees know how to drive a stick?

[gitmo]

I could drive a straight drive at 15.

[dragnet2]

Thompson told authorities that he did not have a driver’s license, records show, and he did not know how to operate vehicles with manual transmissions. The 19-year-old also said he’d never taken a driver education class or been taught how to use stick shift vehicles.

The stealership is screwed, as is Thompson, but the focus will be on the deep pockets.

[gitmo]

You would think they would ask those things before hiring the lad.

[higgmeister]

My jeep is automatic but it won’t even turn over until a butt is firmly behind the wheel.

I'll have to try that out on my vehicle.

The thing I like the most about my 1996 RAV4 is that I can reach in and crank it without even setting my jaw right.   Plus, it runs so quietly that I once left it running when I took a day flight to Nashville and back and it was still puffing away sitting in the long term parking lot in the busiest airport in the country.

[dragnet2]

You bet, and someone got killed because of that. Companies tell people they’ll train them, turns out most of the time there is little or training. They apparently didn’t even check to see if he was qualified/licensed to drive a car. Being crushed to death is not a good way to go.

[Vigilanteman]

If you are under 40, then you grew up in flyover country. Few can.

[gitmo]

I’ll be 70 in a couple weeks.

[dragnet2]

Or when having an automatic was not cool, something old folks drove.

[antidemoncrat]

The lawyers probably figured out they could get more money out of the owner than the technician driving it who probably turned the ignition key without stepping on the clutch.

[Cobra64]

The Jeep was in gear. Another case of incompetence.