A father was crushed to death by his own car after his seven-year-old son accidentally released the handbrake while looking for sweets, an inquest heard today.
Pratik Pandya, 48, tried to stop the car containing his boy rolling away when he was killed on his driveway.
He suffered abdominal injuries and a deep cut to his left leg when the VW Touran pinned him against a wall outside the family home in Isleworth, west London.
Immediately after the accident, his unnamed son told his mum: 'It’s my fault, he was trying to rescue me.'
The little boy later admitted accidentally releasing the handbrake as he searched for gum, West London Coroners' Court heard.
Mr Pandya, an IT consultant, died two days later in hospital after three operations to try to stop internal bleeding.
He was preparing to go shopping with his son and his accountant wife when tragedy struck on May 5 this year.
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