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Low/ No oil pressure shuts off fuel pump
Jeffcoslacker is correct. Shutting offf the motor when there is very low to no oil pressure is mostly a safety feature. The idea is if you get into an accident, your knocked out and your car dies,.....then the fuel pump won't continue to spray gas onto a hot engine through a potentially ruptured line. Different manufactures accomplish this in various ways, but GM typically momnitors the oil pressure switch.
Its funny, cause Ford used the accelerometer sensor in the back trunk space of a lot of vehicles. It would trip if the car got hit hard enough (like in an accident), and had a push button to reset it if so. There have been articles on how thugs used to come up behind these cars with old people or women in them. If no one was around they would hit the victims car with their bumper, just hard enough to trip the switch and kill the car. I actually had some old friend of the family ask me to bypass the switch for this reason. It was funny, cause I thought he was paranoid. But he was willing to pay me, so..........................
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