Car fell on man while he was working on brakes

A CORONER has warned that using a standard scissors-style car jack on its own to hold up a car is not safe after hearing that a man died when a car he was working underneath fell on top of him.

The inquest into the death of Zygimantas Grabys, 31, heard that he usually put a tyre underneath the car as well as the jack but on this occasion he did not.

The accident happened on the May bank holiday weekend, when Mr Grabys, who is from Lithuania, went to work on the brakes on his wife Lina’s Renault Megane car.