On Sunday, January 22, a 77-year-old Las Vegas man was killed after his vintage car rolled over him while he was standing behind it in his driveway. The accident happened in the early afternoon on Quarry Ridge Street.
The Clark County Coroner’s office identified the man as Giuseppe Galluzzo.
Galluzzo parked his 1970 gold Chevrolet Monte Carlo in his driveway, exited the vehicle and left it running. While standing behind the car, he was crushed as the driverless car rolled backward down the sloped driveway.
The car knocked Galluzzo to the ground, rolled right over him, and dragged him, resulting in his death. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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 when his car rolled over him. Providence police said the man got out of his car, didn’t put it in park, and stood behind it. The car rolled backward, knocked him down, and rolled over him.
