--- title: Body Falls Out of Coroner's Car In Pennsylvania description: “I thought someone was playing a prank," a local resident said canonical: https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-13T18:38:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:38.626Z og:title: Body Falls Out of Coroner's Car In Pennsylvania og:description: “I thought someone was playing a prank," a local resident said og:url: https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Body Falls Out of Coroner's Car In Pennsylvania twitter:description: “I thought someone was playing a prank," a local resident said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Body Falls Out of a Coroner's Car in the Middle of Traffic > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=ae585157-61c2-4fe7-9632-d22f3cae246e&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 13, 2014 6:38 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 13, 2014 6:38 PM UTC Among the hazards to watch out for while driving in Pennsylvania: [random dead bodies](http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/communities/hamptons/county-malfunction-caused-body-to-slip-out-of-coroner-s/article%5F5653f520-2956-5c69-803d-e3920fb7d5f5.html). A corpse fell out of the back door of a coroner’s van and into the middle of traffic Friday following a car malfunction, according to the Bucks County Coroner’s Office. The unidentified driver was near a shopping center in Feasterville, Pa. on the way to the coroner’s office when the incident occurred around noon, the Bucks County Courier _Times_ reports. Local resident Jerry Bradley assisted the driver after he saw the body, which was covered in a body bag on a gurney, while waiting at a traffic light. “I thought someone was playing a prank. Someone is pranking people,” Bradley told the paper Saturday night. “It was the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen.” Bradley took a [picture of the body](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152195258648247&set=a.10150238599388247.314540.718848246&type=1) in the middle of traffic before helping the driver quickly get it out of the street and back in the vehicle. The picture has been shared more than 1,900 times on Facebook. “I have to keep going back to look at it to believe it happened,” Bradley said. “I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. If that was my loved one I’d be angry.” County spokesman Chris Edwards directed questions to Coroner Dr. Joseph Campbell but said “care was taken to respect the deceased individual” in a statement. “The Bucks County Coroner’s Office deeply regrets this incident and will take steps to ensure that it is not repeated in the future,” he said. \[[_Courier Times_](http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/communities/hamptons/county-malfunction-caused-body-to-slip-out-of-coroner-s/article%5F5653f520-2956-5c69-803d-e3920fb7d5f5.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/"},"headline":"Body Falls Out of a Coroner's Car in the Middle of Traffic","datePublished":"2014-07-13T18:38:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:38.626Z","description":"“I thought someone was playing a prank,\" a local resident of Feasterville, Pa. said","url":"https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Pennsylvania","Bizarre","WTF"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2979658/body-coroner-car-traffic/","name":"Body Falls Out of a Coroner's Car in the Middle of Traffic"}}]}] ```