This event, such as it was, occurred in Arrowtown, New Zealand, on October 1, 1944.
This was the same day that the St. Louis Browns won their only major league pennant.
The St. Louis Browns Baseball team was known for gimmicks such as sending genetically very tiny humans to take up major league at-bats, and for fielding a winning team only when every other major league baseball team had the majority of their players engaged in combat in the European and Southern Pacific theaters of war.
There was never any causal link between the clinching of the pennant and this weird, car crushing event, but....
I WONDER...