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To: autumnraine
Actually...a car full of teenagers did just that when I was in high school. Some died, I think that one ended up a quadriplegic. The car was packed, they were goofing around and someone knocked it into park over and it flipped.
49 posted on 03/10/2010 6:52:01 AM PST by Spudx7
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To: Spudx7

With all defference to your memory, I’m guessing that something else also happened to the car overloaded with teenagers goofing around - not just a movement of the gear selector.


91 posted on 03/10/2010 7:03:25 AM PST by Pecos
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To: Spudx7

What year was this? I had read that most (if not all) cars since the early 80’s were made with a safety feature that if you could even get the thing in park while moving over 10 MPH (and that was a difficulty in itself because the pin wouldn’t settle into the Park position while it was spinning), that it would just sling the pin back out and it would be idle in neutral.


99 posted on 03/10/2010 7:07:25 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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