TORONTO – Traffic came to a standstill on a busy Pennsylvania road Friday after a corpse on a gurney fell out of a coroner’s van, sending the body rolling onto the street.
According to the Bucks County Courier Times, the incident happened near a busy shopping mall around noon, when a coroner’s office employee noticed the rear door malfunctioned and opened while transporting the body.
A person who was nearby when the accident happened snapped a photo of the body, wrapped in a sheet amongst stopped traffic, and posted it on Facebook.
“Just when I thought I’ve seen everything. That’s a dead body on a stretcher that launched out of the back of a coroner’s vehicle in Feasterville,” Jerry Bradley wrote on his Facebook post.
The photo has been shared over 2,300 times since being posted on Friday.
The coroner’s office told The Associated Press it “deeply regrets” the incident.
A passer-by who helped get the body back into the van told AP he thought it was a prank, calling it “the most bizarre thing” he’d ever seen.
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