Re the 'old' i agree with the lady!!!
My sisters car was badly smashed outside her home on a boxing day a good 30 years ago. The neighbours had an auto cortina, the lady panaiced as she tried to pull out and slammed the exceleartor instead of brake.
in fairness, this could have happened to anyone - just glad the pensioner is ok
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>>slammed the exceleartor instead of brake.
I suppose it surpassed anything she'd done before. ;>)
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Might easily have been bb, but it could have been any transmission.
Some drivers, including some little old ladies, have never mastered the art of feathering pedals. They just stamp on them and take their foot off again. It's bad for clutches and engines and in the end, when the person is distracted or under the weather, something like this happens.
Also, it doesn't occur to people that a single-thickness breezeblock wall isn't much of a barrier. A heavy man could run through one. Poor Mrs Dancer must have been very surprised when she saw daylight there.
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In the 1970s an elderly uncle of mine had a V8 Daimler 250 automatic. He started it up in the garage and accelerated : straight through the rear garage wall..
He stopped driving after that...
Happens more often than reported...
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I can't work out (from the what the article said & the position of her car) how she's reversing, then suddenly going forward?
It said she clipped the wall, panicked & floored the accelerator - in which case why didn't she shoot out the front of the garage in reverse?
Or was the missing bit 'clipped the wall, put the car in a forward gear & floored the accelerator'
Feel sorry for the old dear though - judging by the angle it landed, it could have been a highly injurious landing.
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Paul2007 - have you thought of anything she should be reported to the Police for?. She'd have been on the road if she'd gone the other way.
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Hi
I to have to admit that it's usually people over a certain age, women and automatics on the whole. i told my other half about this incident and she told me of one in their car park where a lady accidentaly depressed the accelerator and smashed another car, but the lady driver was aged about 40
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My sister's car was wrecked by a neighbour trying to drive off with a "Krooklok" still attached!!.
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I once drove off in my MGB with the crooklock on, it is disconcerting when the steering and brakes don't work. I'd been told to lock the brake pedal rather than the clutch as you could snap off the crooklock by stamping on the clutch pedal. better at preventing theft maybe not a good idea for safety... Luckily the handbrake stopped me just short of the parked car I'd tried to steer around.
I was in my twenties at the time, no old age excuse available!
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In the 1970s an elderly uncle of mine had a V8 Daimler automatic. He started it up in the garage and accelerated : straight through the rear garage wall...
What a shame. Not too much damage I hope. Such a superb car.
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