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The vehicle he owned is a Jeep Grand Cherokee. I own the same vehicle, and can understand how this happened. The 2014 & 2015 models have a very strange setup with the gearshift. You cannot shift smoothly between gears like you can with most cars. You have to sort of “bump” your way through each gear until you get it into park. If you don’t do it just right, the shifter can bounce back from “Park” into “Reverse” without the driver realizing it. I’ve been driving for over 40 years, but have had a couple of instances where this happened to me. I took my foot off of the brake, and had the car start rolling backwards because it bounced back into reverse. (You would have to drive one of these vehicles yourself to appreciate how easily this could happen.) I recently received a Recall notice in the mail from Chrysler that basically said they were aware of the problem, and hoped to have a fix ready by the end of the year. It went on to say that, until then, ‘make real sure the car is in the proper gear before exiting the vehicle.”