The video in question is short and starts by showing an everyday activity of a player driving their sports car into a garage, in this case into Los Santos Customs. Everything seems to go splendidly on the way in, until the camera angle changes and the car comes sliding sideways into the garage at high speed, hitting the mechanic on the way. The car comes to a quick stop almost as if nothing out of ordinary happened.

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The glitch is an odd one since usually players only see the animation of the car slowly rolling into the building. The vehicle is not in control of the player after entering a repair shop, or what some still call a Pay ’n’ Spray - slight adjustment of the vehicle model can be noticed before the change in point of view. In this case, though, the Pegassi Tempesta comes drifting in and slams the mechanic on the way to its designated spot. While GTA 5 glitches often kill players, this one targets the innocent mechanic.

Even the mechanic’s ragdoll physics seems to be lacking, the character model just disappears. If anything, this is a clear indication that nothing like this should ever happen. A quick glance at the video doesn’t provide much explanation as to why this would happen - the entrance seems completely normal and there aren’t any vehicles nearby, which is shown in the third-person view of the car entering the garage. Fortunately, the game has tons of players, after all Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the best-selling games of all time, and the sleuths quickly figured out the issue. From the mini-map, it looks like there’s a vehicle coming from the edge toward the player’s position at a very high speed.

It seems that this perfectly timed crash resulted in the Tempesta getting more forward momentum and a slight drift that seemingly kills the flannel shirt-wearing, unnamed mechanic. There’s no confirmation whether the character was killed, or deleted from the game in any way, and whether it affected the functioning of the repair shop. It is perhaps worth noting, that the mechanic can be killed in GTA 5 when the garage door is open. For example, a player can drive over the person, or shoot him, while inside the garage. This, though, was definitely not the way Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar intended for the character to perish.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is available now on PC, PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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