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If I am working under a vehicle or the camper in the workshop, after I jack it up onto the axle stands and before I go under the unit, I make two piles of old wheels with their tyres and put one on each side of where I will be working and beneath the chassis.

These piles are high enough to give me room to escape If anything does go wrong.

Unfortunately a chap I knew had to die in similar circumstances to Mr Pearce before I learned this lesson.

Very sad news, Such a shame, My sympathy to Mr pearce's family.

I remember a while back servicing the brakes on my old caravan and thinking that the van might be a bit unstable jacked up. I ended up hooking the caravan up to the car and jacking the van up one side at a time. I got away with it but this story really makes you think twice about doing such jobs.

Matt.

So easy  to happen, so quickly to occur. Yet on hindsight we may not of done this as Mr Pearce did, but have we done anything else in our past where we could think back now  & realise an accident could of happened.

What a horrible thing to happen to anyone, and be seen still under it by loved ones as his wife must of seen until it could be got off of her lovely husband of 44 years.I hope she can get the picture out of her mind, it will not be easy done.

Thoughts go out ot her & man who found him and could do nothing. Very tragic.

Very sad.
My eldest son's father died in very similar circumstance. He was working on his boss's car and it slipped off the axle stands and crushed him.

My OH is a mechanic and I always panic when he works under vehicles as I know how quickly these tradgedies can occur.

My sympathy is with this man's family xx