Posted on 04/21/2014 4:11:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Investigators are saying it's fortunate no one was hurt when an elderly woman drove her car into a Campbell swimming pool over the weekend.
Capt. Charlie Adams added that it was likely scary for the Camry's driver. But, thankfully, neither she nor anyone else at the Casa de Rosa apartments on South Bascom sustained injury when she hit the gas instead of the brakes on Sunday, he said.
Witnesses said the woman drove straight into the pool and even left the engine running, but she managed to get out and run into her daughter's apartment.
Since no one was injured, Adams said police didn't even file a report.
Fortunately, she didn't go off the deep end.
Speaking of which, yesterday a guy driving a flatbed loaded to the top of the cab with tons of long steel pipes cut a corner too close, ended up with the trailer tires on the passenger side in a really deep drainage ditch. Straps holding pipes had broken and the pipes were everywhere. Police were there, had shut the street down but were just standing there scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do.
Listened to the driver trying to explain something to one of the policeman. Problem was that driver apparently could only speak Spanish and policeman only spoke English. Went by same intersection this morning and nothing had been moved but there was enough space for one lane of traffic to get through.
If this had happened in Houston instead of in the suburbs, someone would have figured out a way to haul all that steel away and sell it for scrap.
Lemme guess, The accelerator pedal stuck.
What, no dog for the cops to kill?
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