In the US a dog managed to run over his owner, when the man was lying underneath the vehicle, looking for damage to the truck.

The bulldog, who is named Tassey, managed to jump up in to the cab of the Ford truck, which had been left in neutral gear but with the engine running and the hand brake left off. Christopher Bishop, the dogs owner, had left the drivers door open, while he was attending to his vehicle and therefore the dog hopped in, probably hoping they would be going for a ride somewhere or wanting to play in there. While he was inside, the dog was moving around and somehow managed to knock the car in to reverse gear by pushing against the gear lever and it drove right over his owner, who was underneath the pick up truck. The man was checking his pick up vehicle for oil leaks at the time of the incident, needing to leave the engine running to be able to do this properly.

The dog owner suffered some injuries to his left side but was fortunately able to get up from the ground pretty quickly and stop the truck before it ran in to a fence and therefore preventing it from causing terrible damage.

The forty three year old man, was not fond of doctors and so he did not seek medical attention for six hours, choosing to rest in his house instead in the hope that he would not need to go to hospital. He eventually had to go and went to Pasco Regional Hospital to be checked over by the medical team and his injuries were treated. Fortunately he was found to not have any life threatening injuries to his damaged left hand side, despite the wheels rolling over him.