My remote start works way different.
It uses my body as the communication beam and it makes me go outside, put the key in, start it, lock it with the fob and go back to getting ready.

 

more than likely left in gear and the ingear safety failed.
friend with type r integra has similar system where its not suppose to start in gear. another friend drove it, parked it, left in gear.
when leaving again from inside house owner remote started it and by time we get outside about 15 seconds later, the car is chewing up the parking block, bottom of bumper was cracked and bent.

 

Its impossible to leave it in gear. Once again, I leave the car running and step out of the vehicle as the final process for engaging the remote start. After I close the driver side door I then lock the car. This shuts the engine off and completes the sequence and enabling the remote function. If any button is pressed, clutch, brake, lock, unlock, e-brake, etc... The sequence is cancelled either denying the ability to start the car remotely or after it is already running (minus the unlock to get in the car) shuts the engine off immediately.

Not only did my car have to get locked in full throttle, the transmission somehow pulled itself into gear.

UNLESS I never set the remote start the night before and it was in gear as normal, but the remote start had the A-OK to start the car thinking I had already gone through all of the proper procedures to engage the system and completely failing at its job. The car then sat there and continually turned itself over trying to start and thus pulling the car forward and burning the hole in the ground.

But maybe the girl I left in the trunk the night before wasn't dead after all. Hmm...

 

i follow now, didnt realize it was on a shut off timer setup as well.
thought it shuts off once key removed.

 

these "freak accidents" almost always are due to user error. Is there anything you aren't telling us OP, such as you are on liability-only insurance or your insurance has been denied?

 

No, there's nothing I'm not telling. I have liability only insurance, and I'm not claiming it on insurance. No reason to. The only serious damage was a broken core support.

I actually had a guy run over me in a parking lot the other day with his Nissan Frontier, so all of the damage is getting fixed regardless. Strange how these things work out.

But seriously. For the remote to be set, I have to be standing outside of the vehicle with it running in neutral and e-brake pulled. Unless it wasn't all the way in neutral and hanging on by a thread, the vibration from cranking over could have pulled it into gear at a dead stop and if the e-brake wasn't pulled all of the way it could easily have had enough power to launch itself forward at cold idle.

Other option is the remote system failed, and I never set it to begin with. The failsafe shorted out and kicked it over while it was in first gear with the e-brake not completely pulled up.

To be honest, setting the remote start has become so routine for me during the winter that I wouldn't know if I had set it or not. But I usually know if I had because I will plan ahead the night before so it will be nice and toasty the next morning.

 

Heres the damage it did:

This was originally bent in and a third of the bumper was warped, but I popped it back out and it just left a bunch of cracks in the paint and plastic.





Bottom quarter of the core support... Gone. Holding the radiator back with some zip ties and hangars after my hose got chopped up in the belts:



Wheel got a little banged up from the bricks it was sitting on, but luckily just inside blemishes: