Police say the man been drinking and was involved in a road rage incident during a downpour Tuesday. 
 
 A man who police say had been drinking was involved in a road rage incident during a downpour Tuesday evening and was injured when he was run over by his own pickup truck. 
 
 Joseph H. Carl, 48, 1012 NE 15th Place, drove his truck into the rear of a vehicle in front of him that was stopped at a traffic light at 2500 NW 43rd St. around 6:50 p.m., according to a Gainesville Police Department report. 
 
 Carl then jumped out and began banging on the driver's window and yelling at the woman inside, apparently neglecting to put his pickup into park. 
 
 The driver of the other vehicle was frightened and drove away, leaving nothing to hold back Carl's Dodge 1500 truck. 
 
 The truck began to roll, and Carl, standing in front of the vehicle, put out his arms and tried to stop it, but it ran over him, the report said. 
 
 Police and paramedics arrived, but Carl refused medical treatment, the report said. 
 
 Carl was stumbling and had a strong odor of alcohol, police said. He told police he was coming from Live Oak and had had three beers. Inside the truck, police found an open and cool 16-oz. can of Miller High Life along with numerous other empty beer cans. 
 
 Carl told the officer that he does not drink and drive. When asked about the beer cans in his truck, he said he was only drinking while he drove home. 
 
 Carl failed field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest. He refused to give a breath sample to police, and the report said that records showed that his driver's license had been suspended in 1991 after he had refused to give a breath sample then. 
 
 He complained of his foot hurting and was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital, where he was treated for fractures in his foot and hand. He also was found to have a blood-alcohol level of .22, nearly three times the legal threshold for drunken driving in Florida. 
 
 Carl was arrested on charges of DUI and DUI with property damage. 

 Road-raging Florida man run over by his own truck after drunken crash 
 
 By Travis Gettys 
 
 Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:28 EDT 
 
 A Florida man was arrested on drunken driving and other charges after he was run over by his own pickup Tuesday during a road rage incident. 
 
 Police said Joseph Carl, of Gainesville, apparently became enraged after he crashed into the rear end of another vehicle stopped at a traffic light during a downpour. 
 
 The 48-year-old Carl jumped out of his truck and began banging on the other driver’s window and yelling at the woman inside, reported The Gainesville Sun. 
 
 Carl neglected to put the pickup into park, police said, and the truck started rolling after the other driver became frightened and drove away. 
 
 Police said Carl tried to stop the truck with his arms, but it ran him over. 
 
 Officers said Carl was stumbling and smelled strongly of alcohol when they arrived, and they said he admitted to drinking three beers. 
 
 But police said they found numerous empty beer cans inside the pickup, along with an open 16-ounce Miller High Life that was still cool. 
 
 Carl claimed he did not drink and drive, but he amended his claim after police found the beer and said he was only drinking during his drive home from Live Oak, about 50 miles away. 
 
 Officers arrested Carl on drunken driving and property damage charges and took him to a nearby hospital for treatment for a broken foot and hand. 
 
 A blood test at the hospital revealed his blood-alcohol content was 0.22, nearly three times the legal limit for Florida.
– A Florida man made a series of questionable decisions this week that culminated in him being run over by his own truck, reports Raw Story. Let us count the ways, from an account in the Gainesville Sun: Beer: Cops say Joseph Carl, 48, was almost three times over the legal limit and had an open (and cold) beer can in his truck. Which led to ... Accident: Carl drove into a car stopped at a red light, say police, which led to ... Road rage: He got out of his truck and started banging on the driver's window of the other car, but ... "Park": In his fury, he neglected to put his truck in park, and it began rolling toward him when the freaked-out other driver sped away; still, he might have escaped if not for ... Beer muscles: Carl "put out his arms and tried to stop" the rolling truck, says the Sun, but, no, this did not work. Carl was treated for fractures to his foot and hand, and charged with DUI and DUI property damage.