NHTSA Complaint #10595815 — 2004 DODGE RAM 3500

I PUT MY TRUCK INTO PARK AND WAS WALKING AROUND THE REAR TO CHECK MY MAILBOX AND THE TRUCK STARTED ROLLING FORWARD AND HIT MY MAIN GATE, WHICH WAS CLOSED AND HAD A SLIDE BOLT CLOSED. I RAN AROUND TO THE DOOR TO TRY TO JUMP INTO THE CAB (THINKING MY GATE HAD STOPPED THE TRUCK) WHEN MY GATE CRASHED OPEN (BENDING THE HEAVY BOLT AND TEARING ONE OF THE GATES DOWN AND BENDING THE OTHER GATE) AND IT KEPT MOVING TOWARD A TREE. LIKE AN IDIOT, I RAN AND GRABBED THE GRAB BAR AND JUMPED INTO THE CAB AND HIT THE BRAKES. IF I HAD FALLEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN RUN OVER BY THE DUALLY WHEELS OR IF HEADED OUT THE GATE, COULD HAVE HIT A CAR. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IT HAPPENED - ORIGINALLY IT HAPPENED BACK IN 2005 AND I THOUGHT I HAD JUST NEGLECTED TO PUT THE TRUCK INTO PARK, BUT THE SECOND TIME IT HAPPENED I REALIZED THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE TRUCK AND NOT ME. *TR