This customer’s car supposedly had a total brake failure causing an employee to drive onto the alignment rack and over the mechanic.
Sam, an auto shop mechanic, is lucky to be alive after a customer’s car ran him over shortly after he rolled open the repair garage’s doors.
Thanks to how he was hit and where he landed, Sam supposedly survived mostly unscathed, and it was all caught on the shop’s security cameras.
The security footage was first shared by @Cape3X on X/Twitter, whose post has since been marked by X as sensitive content which requires you to be signed in if you want to see the original post.
Check out the video reposted on Reddit below. (and mirror here if the video below is 404.)
“Holy Cow! This just happened at my in-law’s auto shop. They said he’s OK. Blessed,” OP captioned his original post.
OP does not disclose what auto shop this is and where exactly it’s located, although he does suggest it’s somewhere in Colorado.
In the security camera footage, we see Sam roll open the garage doors as the shop opens for the day.
Sam can be seen adjusting the alignment rack moments before chaos breaks loose.
Suddenly, an employee driving a customer’s Scion xD can be seen driving into the shop and onto the alignment rack, headed straight for Sam.
Sam does his best to block the path of the incoming car but can only do so much.
In what @Cape3X and everyone else are calling a miracle, Sam falls in the middle of the raised alignment rack, his back slamming into a toolbox.
The Scion xD rolls over Sam, slamming into the front of the unsecured toolbox before coming to a stop.
The front of the Scion looks like it’s about to hit Sam head-on but, at this last moment, it looks like Sam slides just underneath the Scion, the bottom of the car likely coming within an inch of the top of his head.
One X user slowed down the footage and pointed out how something on the front of the Scion, what looks like a tow bar you hook up to an RV, might’ve hit the front of the toolbox too, creating a gap where Sam’s head might’ve been.
I don’t know what is attached to the bumper, but that plus the angled tool chest is probably what saved him. pic.twitter.com/lL9YQhk0ai
— DrinkerOfTears (@DrinkerOfTears) October 22, 2024
According to @Cape3X, Sam is OK.
And, according to someone in the know, the person driving was not a customer but was an employee, attributing the freak accident to some kind of brake failure.
It’s safe to say we’re all glad Sam’s A-OK.
that employee almost killed his coworker because of his reckless driving
No, dumba**. If you can read it was complete brake failure, like your Dad’s cond*m.
If you believe it was actually brake failure, then I’m sorry to inform you that it’s YOUR dad’s c****m that should have broke.