sat may 4 wichita ks. a lady died today cause a Dakota rolled over her. her older husband thought it was in park but was not. my dakota doesn't go into park very good, i have to really work it to get it in. so keep a close eye on yours

 

What year was the Dakota? And do you have link to that article if it was in a newspaper?

 

You people with automatic Trans get so used to park you forget there is a manual parking brake and should be used because such a thing could happen.

Cars are dangerous and can kill... people forget that, use the parking brake to be safe.

I have seen many people get run over by their own car in the news it happens all the time mostly by seniors and teens.

So use the parking brake. http://www.driversedguru.com/driving...parking-brake/

 

TO: dodge man. i dont know the year, i think its a 2nd gen. crew cab. ill try to find a news art. yes a lot of people get sloppy putting a car in park. i have been driving chrysler cars since 1965. about 30-35 different cars but my dakota is the ONLY one that has given trouble about putting it in park. my mother got her leg crushed the same way from a ford, the trouble was her husband was just careless. seems to me that old peoples family dont stop them from driving when they should.

 

here is the art it doesnt have much info:---------Car rolls over 70-year-old woman in south Wichita, kills her
By Jerry Siebenmark
The Wichita Eagle
Published Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 12:54 p.m.
Updated Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 3:01 p.m.
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A woman was killed in south Wichita late Saturday morning when a vehicle rolling backwards ran over her.

Sedgwick County dispatch received the call at 11:30 a.m. of an unknown accident at 47th Street South and Broadview at Deer Lake Estates in Oaklawn.

A dispatcher said the victim was a 70-year-old woman. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, the dispatcher said.

It’s not clear if the woman was in the roadway when the accident occurred.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/05/05/232...#storylink=cpy

 

There was a recall for the shifter slipping out of park, see this article:

http://www.lemonauto.com/complaints/...dge_dakota.htm

 

Last week as I was walking into a grocery store and a very old lady just hit a speed bump so fast as to get air born and this is the scary part she kept on going like it didn’t even happed she was looking side to side for something she didn’t even flinch.

Get out of the car you are DANGEROUS old people I know I had to take the keys from my Mom she was having way too many small accidents she had early stage Alzheimer’s and sometimes forgot were the gas stations were in town.

Lucky me she relented without much fuss and I sold her car ASAP so she wouldn’t try to drive sometimes she would say she lost her keys and needed to go shopping or couldn’t understand where her car was. YIKES

 

Parking break...

 

half of the drivers dont even know they have a parking break. in the 70s i worked at Davis Mfg. we made trenching machines. they had a law suit about a machine that the break didnt stop it going down hill. we found out an emergency break is NOT the same as a parking break. after some changes we DID have a n emergency break. and added some text to the operating manual. so remember a parking break is NOT an emergency break.