I'm always terrified when one of my cars is in that position. Put something behind the wheels to stop the car from rolling. It looks like nobody was in this car if I'm seeing things clearly. How did he intend a rolling car to stop?

I’ve watched this nightmare several times and my heart just pounds.

I do not see anyone inside the car that would be able to apply the brakes.

As a stopgap safety feature roll it out using a cable attached to the frame.
Once it is in place to lower, set brakes, release cable and lower.

That reminds me of the 1968 Beaumont SD396 convertible that Bill Wertheim sold several years ago. While being delivered, the delivery truck/trailer went over the side of a mountain with the Beaumont and a few other cars inside the trailer.

OK, I turned my VPN off and was able to watch it and yes to everything you wrote about preventing this from happening. This is just plain and simple stupidity by the driver.

Looks like he had a chock there and the car bounced over it. Whenever I roll a car back off a trailer w no one in it there’s always a strap to catch it even if I use a chock it’s especially hard to hold a car from rolling fast on the deck like that. But having a strap on it has its issues too like when it snaps tight coming up and slapping the body but it’s still way better than this outcome. BTW who bought this car Joe Biden ? Come on man! �� sounds just like him

Heart wrenching video. When I went back and looked at the comments in the Bring a Trailer Auction, it looks like the seller and owner of the car for the past 44 years was trying to track it down and buy it back from the insurance company after the incident.

That bat sale is confusing as heck. Wouldn't one of them know where it went and how can one be the "seller", if the insurance co owns it ??

The delivery fiasco was post BaT. So, the insurance company of the transporter paid off the new owner and thus they now own it

So the comments about the car getting dropped and damaged are after the auction. Kinda confusing and weird that the comments can still be left after it ends.

Auction was on 2/28, most of the comments re the car coming off the lift are in April, after the auction. You can still add comments on that car/auction today on the BAT site.