A 77-year-old man from Las Vegas died on Sunday, January 22, after his vintage car rolled over him while he was standing in his driveway.
The Las Vegas Metro Police said that the fatal incident happened at around 1:06 pm on Quarry Ridge Street.
Police said that the man, who the Clark County Coroner’s Office later identified as Giuseppe Galluzzo, 77, had parked his 1970 gold Chevrolet Monte Carlo in the driveway. The man exited the vehicle and left it running.
After Galluzzo exited the car, he was standing behind it. The driverless car began rolling backward, going down the sloped driveway. The car rolled over the clueless man.
The Monte Carlo knocked Galluzzo to the ground, rolled over him, and dragged him, resulting in his death.
Responding officers tried to perform lifesaving efforts on him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokesperson for the Clark County Coroner’s Office said they performed an autopsy on the 77-year-old man and determined that his cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma. They ruled his death accidental.
It is not the first time someone has died because a driverless car ran over them in the US.
In 2017, a 53-year-old man from Providence, Rhode Island, was killed similarly when his car rolled over him. Providence police said the man got out of his car without putting it in park and stood behind it. The car rolled backward, knocked him over, and went right over him.
