Car decapitates man - Daily Fail link inside

So im guessing it was an auto if he couldnt get it into neutral while it was driving.

But what i cant understand is why he didnt try the footbrake, front wheel drive so it'd be killing the driving wheels so wouldnt skid like using the handbrake (assuming the handbrake actually worked, which i've yet to see on a car)

I'm failing to see how anything short of a brake, electronics, throttle and brain failure simaltanously could have caused this
 
The driver probably thought they had their foot hard on the brake pedal when it was on the accelerator. The speed readings he was giving were likely from the cruise control menu that displays the selected speed in the digital section of the cluster.

A similar incident occurred on a plane that crashed in the panic the co pilot had the controls hard down rather than pulling up despite discussing it with the pilot, he eventually realises what he was doing but by that point it was too late.

I was surprised the driver wasn't asked to apply the foot brake, this cuts the cruise and throttle after a few seconds on most drive by wire cars.
 
I don't see it myself. I think he got himself into a panic and didn't realize his foot was hard on the accelerator instead of the brake.
 
In any instance, just stand on the brakes. Bring anything to a stop. Can engage neutral in an auto while moving, no problem there. As mentioned, probably just had the pedals mixed up - seen people do similar while I'm in the car.

Devil's advocate: committing suicide in a way that still grants life insurance to be paid out.
 
kindai said:
I don't see it myself. I think he got himself into a panic and didn't realize his foot was hard on the accelerator instead of the brake.
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That is also what I think happened....Was in a panic and was pressing the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal which was then causing his panic to get far worst .

Martin Clatworthy, a vehicle data examiner and safety safety specialist for Volkswagen, the makers of Skoda,
told the inquest that in the five seconds before the crash, the vehicle was travelling at 116mph and the accelerator pedal was fully depressed. He added there was no braking recorded.
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The car didn't decapitate the man, the man decapitated the man. Of course that doesn't sell as many papers so that's not what gets run.
 
The car didn't decapitate him, the HGV's trailer that he hit @116mph did.

Tragic incident but I doubt anything more than either suicide or driver error i.e. he hit the accelerator instead of his brakes.

Seems rather odd that he had time to make a call but not to realise he's accelerating hard and lift off the throttle, if that's what happened were it an error rather than intended.
 
Also seems a bit strange with this happening at around 3am, as am guessing there would have been very few cars on the road at that time in the morning..
 
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Surely he could have driven into the central reservation barrier and lost speed that way by scrubbing along it? I can't see how this wasn't a preference to ramming a parked HGV which would have involved him steering toward it surely?

The more I think about it the more it doesn't add up.
 
Dangerous Dave said:
Covered in the article, it had a keyless stop/start pushing the button didn't turn the engine off when it was moving. I would expect it to have a fail safe where if you held it for 10-20 seconds it would cut the engine but I have never tried it.
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The FL variant of Octavia II (as pictured in the article) doesn't have start stop button/keyless entry. It also has no sports and normal mode the victim allegedly describes. Kessy was available as an option from 2013 onwards and so was dynamic control. However in that case cruise control would be active type and would automatically decelerate before plowing anything stationary.

I am not aware of any known fault in dual clutch DSG or regular manual on any VAG cars that would create "It is not stopping at neutral" scenario.

Sounds like slow news day at Daily Meh for me.
 
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