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This is a story about a coworker of mine, his name is Jim. He is an older fellow, proably over 70. He just called us a couple of minutes ago to say that we was going to be delayed returning from his trip. This is the story why...

A few weeks ago a driver ran a red light and T-boned his station wagon. Totalled it and briefly put him in the hospital. A week later he leaves for a month long trip in Florida. He drove down. Seems that he has been renting a car in Florida. I believe they were in Largo. His insurance was going to cut the rental off so he and his wife went shopping for a new car. They signed the paperwork and took posession of the car. Jim told his wife to drive the new car over to the rental place and he'd follow her in the rental. She accidentally puts the car into reverse and backs into the rental. She mistankenly hits the gas instead of the brake. With the new car she pushes the rental into the street. The rental jacknifes and she slides past. She continues across the median and gets t-boned by a passing car. Somewhere along the way, the air bag fires knocking her out. Her car continues down an embankment and rolls over. It finally stops after crashing into a apartment building, but not before destroying a phone box. Apparently she's OK, but the new car is totalled.

Dude that sucks. I mean that really sucks!
I really hope them the best, and hope everything works out.

Talk about Murphys' Law:( :( :(

WOW ,THAT IS SAD, HOPE THEM THE BEST. I SAW THE SAME THING IN A DRIVE THROUGH ONE DAY.

Talk about a stroke of bad luck...Hope everyone is okay.

It's a really stupid mistake, yet it happens so often. Remember all the cases of "unexplained acceleration" from the 80's? That's when GM picked up the brake to shift interlock. Freekin' annoying feature, but it's unfortinate that their "new" car didn't have it.

Give him 3 days off. Unpaid of course. However pay him for those three days if he is able to divorce the wife in the three days.:eek:

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Originally posted by Troutly
An old Blue Hair does a similiar thing near here a couple months ago.....

She hits the gas instead of the brake. Smashes into one vehicle in a parking lot, pushes that out of the way, goes up and over the berm out onto the street. She then hits a pole which stops her.....for a minute....she keeps her foot planted on the gas and the pole gives way. She careens back across the four-lane street, hits the berm again, which re-directs her back out onto the street. She then broadsides a passing car, killing both occupants in the car.....all the while she had her foot floored on the gas. The final impact disabled her car preventing her from causing further death and destruction. :rolleyes:

And she probably just got a "bad Granny, please pay attention next time". The rest of us would be in Jail for the rest of our lives....

Sorry to hear about your co-worker Cord

That sounds like part old driver and part bad f-ing luck!!

Had a similar mishap happen at the body shop next door on Wednesday. An older guy hit the gas instead of the brake and drove over the body shops sign and some new body parts that had been delivered (doors, fenders etc). Continued up the embankment and hit the brick building right where the front door is! I guess the bright side is.....he saved himself a tow bill getting it towed to the body shop.

I'm GLAD on one was seriously injured ! I wonder if The
National Transportation Safety Board has a family plan discount on Drivers Education Classes. or maybe they could try there AARP cards.

Wow. Talk about a bad month. Hopefully, their dose of bad luck has run out.

That exact same thing happens at least three times a day in Florida.:D

Hope they are o.k.

I hope everyone is ok

That's a horrible story. Poor folks. Was the accelerator stuck or was she just confused? I know that sometimes older people think they are slamming on the break and its actually the gas.

I once lived in a really small town in Texas and went to get my drivers license. In front of me was a guy about 90 who was having the eye exam.

I noticed that he kept failing to read the cards correctly. They kept telling him to try again even though he obviously was blind as a bat. He repeated this about 15 more times. After standing there for 20 minutes, he still failed it every time!

The clerk finally says "No sir, it's not an A, H, V, Y, N, X nor an M."

So the old guy says, "Is it a W?"

And the licenser says "Yes! Congrats, you passed!'

:rolleyes:

I havn't heard the "official" version of the story. But, I'm pretty sure that it was operator error. Sure must have been one hell of a ride!

Regarding back luck comming in 3's, let's just say that I'm not riding with him. :rolleyes:

Murphy is a bastard who deserves to be tortured very slooooooowly until dead.

that sucks.. i have a similar story..friend of mine goes out to pick up the car of his dreams. he ordered a 911, and was on his way to pick it up. he gets it, signs the papers. as he pulls out of the parking lot, somehow gets his foot stuck between the clutch and the brake. an oncoming cars hits him in the side, car is finished. after all said and done ordered another, picks it up. in the same driveway as he is waiting to pull out, someone hits him from behind and put him in the middle of traffic, car finished....after all said and done he had the next car delivered..