I guess you had to be there.

Except it could have killed you, in a blameless fashion.
"He was making some repairs on his automobile at the side of the highway when a truck backed up and ran over him, fracturing both legs and cutting a gash in his abdomen 14 inches in length."
...
"The accident was declared to have been an unavoidable one."
(Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat of July 26, 1929, reporting the death of the injured man.)