Driver reverses car into river

Always apply the handbrake when parking. And make sure you check your gear before pressing the accelerator. Two fundamentals of driving, which a man in Yangzhong city of east China's Jiangsu Province forgot on Saturday – to his cost. The driver, surnamed Zhang, stopped to greet a friend and stepped out of his vehicle without properly parking it. His car slowly began to roll backwards towards a river, but Zhang was close enough to prevent disaster. He rushed back to the vehicle, climbed inside and pressed the accelerator – but the car was in reverse gear. Perhaps he meant to push the brake or thought the car was in first gear, but the result was a car striking a motorcyclist before plunging into the river.