1300 hp mercury comet brake failure crash

RustyRatRod said

I think "it depends" is the answer. Hard to tell from the video if the street is level. It might have a downhill angle going to the light. Plus, did he "leave" it in park all the way to the crash? I thought I saw him pull it out and put it back a time or two, so he may have added insult to injury there. All of "THAT", plus, it could have had some kind of transmission failure as well. If the brakes failed and the throttle was sticking, what else was wrong?

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I had thought that , I think the noise was the park pawl ratcheting, and I cant be 100% that the act of putting it in park separated the engine and trans through the valve body, I do think most street automatics do though. The act of putting it in park neutrals out the trans through removing the line pressure by the use of the valving if i recall correctly. I went to school for this years ago, but i never became an auto trans guy I'm a 4 speed guy I know some basics of auto, but don t rebuild them.