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More likely one of those foot-on-the-wrong-pedal-then-panic moments. They happen quite often, in every country. But given (a) the huge oomph off the mark of an electric car, plus the upstairs location, plus the failure to have effective safety barriers, that "woops moment" became a tradgedy.
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By the way, it's not "Westernise". Most of the world outside Europe uses 1, 2, 3 rather than G, 1, 2. Canada and the USA, most of South America, Norway for some reason, and almost all of Asia. The relatively small number of countries that use "G, 1, 2" amounts to most of Europe, plus places where the European influence was or is strong. These are mostly former colonies. Often, especially where European and US or Asian influence are both present, both systems are used. For example, Vietnam is mostly "1, 2, 3" but not always; NZ and Oz are mostly "G, 1, 2" but you can't rely on it, and so on. Personally, I prefer the system they use in multi-storey car parks - to find your car, just keep going up the stairs until you get to the light blue door with the camel on it, or the yellow door with the fish. So far, so good. Then you have to remember which car you are driving today and what colour it is.
Years ago I saw an accident happen which I would barely believe unless I had - a man was sitting in his car waiting to turn out of a car park, and (as we found out later) tried to adjust his seat. He slipped, planted his foot on the accelerator, and the (automatic) car then powered straight across a busy road with traffic going in both directions, demolished a bus shelter full of children, and ended up in the front of an estate agent's office. Miraculously, no-one was even hurt. On the way across the road his car just clipped the back of another one - but no more than a paint scrape really - the children at the bus stop somehow saw it coming and jumped out of the way, and the estate agent's desk was just far enough away from the window that she wasn't hit.
But it would have been very easy for that to have been several people killed.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
The second one has been seen here before but the cause is the same, foot down = go!