Woman crashes, flips SUV during test drive in Va.

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | August 20, 2016 1:22 pm | Valerie Bonk

[COBOL2Java]

A driver taking an SUV for a spin struck four cars and flipped the vehicle on its side at a dealership in Ballston, Virginia.

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WASHINGTON — A test drive took a dangerous turn Friday when a woman trying out a Mercedes struck four cars and flipped the vehicle on its side at a dealership in Virginia, NBC Washington reported.

At about 11:30 a.m., a female driver and three passengers were test-driving a Mercedes SUV in the parking lot of the Mercedes-Benz of Arlington dealership on North Glebe Road in Ballston when the woman accelerated at a high rate of speed, according to the report.

[COBOL2Java]

Then of course, Arlington being suburban Washington DC, she may be the wife of a Congressman or Senator...

[USMCPOP]

An acquaintance in Indiana took a drive in a Porche 911 with the salesman. Managed to run off the road on a turn and spin it into a corn field.

[seowulf]

I like to pull a kilo bar of gold out of my pocket and drop it on their desk.

[Chickensoup]

Marry Me!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good to do if you have a high enough credit limit. Or if you have a card such as Amex which doesn’t have an upper limit.

[ReagansShinyHair]

The credit card fees that the dealer would pay are enormous. So I have been told once when I was car shopping.

[Moltke]

Must’ve been one of those old “Audi” Mercedes...they did that all by themselves, don’t’cha know...but the reporter’s “accelerating at a high rate of speed” defies currently known physics.

[Chickensoup]

when car dealers move their lips they lie.

[cyclotic]

I’ve done it with used cars to get the cash back.

[USMCPOP]

Making sharp turns in four wheel drive can be tricky if you’re not used it I had a Jeep J-10 pickup and now a Toyota Tacoma short-bed. Great fun in the mud and snow when you get going and get about 30 degrees sideways spinning the wheels. Then they get traction and head for the nearest tree/sign/ditch/curb in a real hurry. Much fun at 10-15 miles per hour.

[bgill]

According to ARLnow.com, the driver may have mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake before the crashed occurred

But she's in a parking space. How the heck do you speed up that fast in a parking lot much less a parking space?

[freedomlover]

Thats not a flip
This is a flip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qzjdH46gY

[freedomlover]

He he I have a 64 CJ5 you look at that thing wrong and it will get up on its side

[TalBlack]

She may have had little or no experience driving one of these things
She probably got in and started throwing it around like it was a car.

[Chode]

checkin out the 4WD to see how well it drives over cars in a BLM emergency scenario?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Please. Who here has not wrecked and flipped a car that they were test driving, am I right?

DANG!

[ilovesarah2012]

Exactly.

[Carl Vehse]

“Congratulations, lady. You are now the proud owner of five slightly used automobiles. We’ll need a cashier’s check.”

[Talisker]

just watch, the moron will turn around and sue the dealership, or better yet Mercedes (or both!), for something or other.....

Absolutely, positively, noooooooo doubt about it!

[Spirit of Liberty]

I think the angle of the photo cut off the last word. It says ‘I *heart* collagen’.