Be careful hitching up

Sorry about your neighbor. Hope he will be ok. Ditto to Reader1. All of my mistakes have been related to either being in a hurry and overlooking something or being tired and unaware. Take the time; drive rested.

I've never run over myself and have only had two issues while hooking up.

DISTRACTIONS..... and mostly when you stop your process to talk to someone else. That is a prescription to accidents. Once, while hooking up my golf cart trailer behind the Jeep. The neighbor called me over to show me something. I went back and drove the cart up on the trailer. I, at that moment, found out that I had not secured the coupling to the hitch ball. Same thing happened again while loading the cart on the trailer when it was behind my F-250. I'm now shopping for another tailgait. :)

Sorry to hear about your neighbor, hope he recovers.

It's not too hard to overlook this sort of thing, especially if you are tired. When I was younger and worked for a contractor, I plowed snow in the winter time. I had been plowing in a big storm for over 30 hours straight, going from job to job, apartments and office buildings. I was exhausted.

I was at an apartment complex parking lot, and got out of the truck for something, don't remember what now. I put on the parking brake, but accidentally left it in drive. With my back to the vehicle, it started rolling, and the plow blade clipped the back of 7 different vehicles, including a Mercedes, two BMWs and a Jaguar. Not a good day....it happens though. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.

I managed to keep my job, but I heard gaff about that incident for years afterward...and the insurance company was none too happy...