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MoonchildCA

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41. I did this with my first car.

Reply to busterbrown (Reply #18)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 01:17 AM

Jun 2016

I parked in my friend's steep driveway. No one ever told me it had to be in gear. When I left her house, my car was gone. It had rolled down her driveway and crashed into a tree. I guess it could have been worse...

It's not an intuitive thing--parking in neutral seems to make sense, if you don't know better. And, there are a lot less people in this generation familiar with standard transmission.

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'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin dies in car crash at age 27 [View all] Blue_Adept Jun 2016 OP

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Heart Breaking! busterbrown Jun 2016 #18

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or he just left it in neutral- They haven't put a manual in those for years snooper2 Jun 2016 #46

I did this with my first car. MoonchildCA Jun 2016 #41

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