CCTV captures moment man in his 60s falls out of car before it runs over him

CCTV footage has caught the dramatic moment a driver fell out of his car as it reversed at speed, running him over in the process.

The video shows the man, in his 60s, tumble out of the driver’s seat of the automatic silver Audi A8 – which has its door open – as the car moves backwards.

The man then gets dragged into a yellow grit box, before being hit by the door of the vehicle.

The £15,000 car carries on over a steep grass verge towards a footpath where children and parents had been walking to school just moments earlier.

It was eventually stopped from going any further by metal railings on the footpath.

The incident happened on Thursday, just before 9am, in Southampton, Hampshire.

The man suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and is being treated in hospital. No arrests have been made.

The man as the car reverses and he falls out of the driver’s seat (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)

A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said she heard a ‘big bang’ but didn’t think much of it.

‘It was only when I heard a commotion coming from outside that drew my attention,’ she added.

‘When I saw what happened I thought to check the CCTV and that’s when I saw the crash.’

She said she found it very odd how the car reversed with such speed.

The man suffered serious but non-life threating injuries

‘I took my automatic driving license many moons ago and I don’t understand how he just reversed that quickly.

‘It’s really bizarre, I don’t understand what he was doing and how he got the car like that.

‘This was only a short time after children and parents had gone through the cutaway on their way to school so it could have been much worse.’

A spokesperson from Hampshire Constabulary said: ‘We were called just after 9am on 21 March to a report of a collision in Furze Close, Southampton.

‘This involved a silver Audi A8. The driver, a man in his 60s, suffered a serious but not life-threatening injury.

‘He is currently being treated in hospital.’

Last week, in the US, CCTV footage captured the moment an £86,500 electric Porsche somersaulted through the air several times, leaving one person in a critical condition.

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