In a bizarre incident, a man in Canada was crushed to death by his car while paying for a McDonald's meal last week, in what local police called a "tragic death," according to "NBC News."
The Vancouver Police Department confirmed that Anthony Ailes, a 42-year-old married father of two from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, died after bending over from a car to pick up a fallen item while trying to pay for his order from a McDonald's window in downtown Vancouver. His car crushed him to death, police said.
"First responders made efforts to revive the man, but he died tragically at the scene," Vancouver Police spokeswoman Tanya Vicenten said in a statement.
She said the surveillance video showed that when Ailes opened his car door to catch the thing he fell from, the car sped forward, hitting a structural part of the restaurant, and the driver was unable to free himself from the car because it was strapped between the door and the frame.
Local news reports said co-workers and his family raised tens of thousands of dollars for the man's widow and two young children.
Ailes' brother-in-law, Neil Bender, told CTV that Ailes was working as an elevator mechanic, maintaining elevators for high-rises in downtown Vancouver.
"Understandably, the kids don't fully absorb it, we just tried to get them as many family members as possible," Bender told the network.
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