Reply #52: Couple of possibilities

[BQueen]

First, a few completely non-tinfoil-hat observations/questions.
1) It doesn't say whether or not the car was running, and standard transmission vehicles can move while not running if in neutral and the emergency brake is not on or fails. I'm pretty sure automatics can move in neutral, too (same thing as to emergency brake) but the steering wheel will lock if turned too far.

2) Someone mentioned that driveways often do slope into garages, plus, it says she was pinned between the car and an "outbuilding" not the garage (mere servants don't park where the family parks, surely).

3) *Assuming* she's parked on a curved, sloping drive near an outbuilding, the car, if the front wheels were still turned, could possibly pin her as it scraped the outbuilding - and this would probably be enough to fatally injure her - would be fender/wheel rather than bumper, so it would hit more area and be more likely to result in internal bleeding.

However, this story is way too vague to figure any of that out - seems suspiciously vague for a death that occurred a week ago, I grant you.

4) This still leaves the question of what caused the car to move from a spot where it had been stationary without the emergency brake OR what caused the emergency brake to fail? Could she have been returning around the front of the car after slamming the passenger door and set it in motion? (That would assume brake not on.)

Other more sinister musings, but not BFEE, necessarily:
1) What if someone (young) got inside the vehicle and disengaged the emergency brake? Wouldn't that alone be enough for a cover-up?

2) Same theme, what if someone happened to strike that car from behind at just the wrong moment? (or the right one, if you want to see it that way) Again, even if an accident, a cover-up would be tempting.