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This was related to me by a friend who works in a combo 7-Eleven/Gas Station and happened several winters ago. In this case it may have been more of a police brain burp than the customer.
The speed limit on the road the store is on is 45 MPH. One nice winter day an elderly woman in an older but looking in good condition large four door sedan comes into the parking lot at 45-50 MPH. Obviously she can't make the turn at that speed and she crashes into a car that had been waiting to exit pushing both vehicles into the parking lot.
The woman shuts off her car and gets out apologizing to the person she hit and asking if they are OK. She says, over and over, that she doesn't know what happened; her car just started to accelerate for no reason and even though she was jamming her foot on the brake she couldn't get it to slow down.
The police show up and call a tow truck for the car that was hit as it is obviously undrivable (my friend said the front driver’s side wheel was folded up under the car from the impact). The woman reiterates her story of the out of control car to the police.
After the wrecked car is towed one of the officers asks the woman to move her car into a parking space as she is blocking access to the parking lot. She says again that the car accelerated for no reason and she doesn't want to start it. The officer assures her that everything will be fine and insists she move the car.
The woman starts the car, puts it in drive and the motor just started ramping up the RPM's from the second it was started. She shoots across the parking lot and up a snow bank where the car comes to rest, its drive tires furiously churning in the snow. She shuts the ignition off, rolls down her window and yells back at the cop, "I TOLD YOU!” The cop calls for another tow truck and when the dispatcher commented, "I thought you just called and said you only had one car that needed a tow?" the cop had to explain why there were now two cars in need of a tow truck.
The speed limit on the road the store is on is 45 MPH. One nice winter day an elderly woman in an older but looking in good condition large four door sedan comes into the parking lot at 45-50 MPH. Obviously she can't make the turn at that speed and she crashes into a car that had been waiting to exit pushing both vehicles into the parking lot.
The woman shuts off her car and gets out apologizing to the person she hit and asking if they are OK. She says, over and over, that she doesn't know what happened; her car just started to accelerate for no reason and even though she was jamming her foot on the brake she couldn't get it to slow down.
The police show up and call a tow truck for the car that was hit as it is obviously undrivable (my friend said the front driver’s side wheel was folded up under the car from the impact). The woman reiterates her story of the out of control car to the police.
After the wrecked car is towed one of the officers asks the woman to move her car into a parking space as she is blocking access to the parking lot. She says again that the car accelerated for no reason and she doesn't want to start it. The officer assures her that everything will be fine and insists she move the car.
The woman starts the car, puts it in drive and the motor just started ramping up the RPM's from the second it was started. She shoots across the parking lot and up a snow bank where the car comes to rest, its drive tires furiously churning in the snow. She shuts the ignition off, rolls down her window and yells back at the cop, "I TOLD YOU!” The cop calls for another tow truck and when the dispatcher commented, "I thought you just called and said you only had one car that needed a tow?" the cop had to explain why there were now two cars in need of a tow truck.
),easy to deal with,step on the clutch and/or shift into neutral,steer it to a safe area then shut it off.I can shift my modern vehicles ('04 & '09) into neutral with a few ounces of pressure.
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