‘Nicest man’ dies after mishap in Windsor driveway
A man died Thursday after reportedly being pinned under a car in the driveway of a house in the 3700 block of Turner Road.
Police haven’t released the victim’s name, but neighbours said a man and woman lived in the house where the accident happened just before 3 p.m.
A pickup truck was backed into the driveway, and a historic car was pressed up against the back of the pickup truck.
A woman said she looked out her window and saw her neighbour lying on the ground next to the old car, with emergency personnel performing CPR on the man.
“They worked on him for a long time. They didn’t stop,” she said.
She said her neighbour called the old car his “hot rod.”
“It was known throughout the neighbourhood,” she said of the car. Her grandchildren loved the car, she said.
“If they heard that car start up, I’d have to lift them up to see over the fence.”
The man was retired, she said, but still did odd jobs.
His backyard was full of tools, a trailer, tires, and he was constantly tinkering, she said.
“He was like Fred Sanford,” she said, referring to the television character in the 1970s and ’80s. “He was constantly doing something.” She described him as “the nicest man I’ve ever met.”
He cut her grass with his riding mower, she said, and fed the neighbourhood cats.
“He’d watch out for everybody.” Three police vehicles, including one with the department’s forensic identification unit, were still parked in front of the house late in the afternoon.