[Stoat]

The video link provides a bit more information than the text of this story:

• The Grandma is 69 years old
• She drove 1.6 miles at 35-40 mph down a very busy highway with the woman hanging onto the hood of her car
• The Grandma's attorney is saying that the defendant is a diabetic and had not had her medication for two days

[NonValueAdded]

Martin got run over by a grand-ma
while picking up her kids at schooooool

[kinoxi]

Just damn...

[Logophile]

Does that mean she's going to lose her license?

[MinuteGal]

"Through the hills and over the hood
On grandmother's car we go........"

[Jo Nuvark]

Woh! Piston Packin' Grandma. Look out!

[They'reGone2000]

What's up with those folks in SW Washington?

Woman jailed after letting 12-year-old drive in fatal crash

KELSO, Wash. (AP) - A woman who let her boyfriend's 12-year-old son drive the family car at the time of a crash in which the boy died has been arrested for investigation of first-degree manslaughter.

Kelley Hill, 34, of Woodland, was jailed Thursday with bail set at $500,000, Cowlitz County sheriff's Capt. Mark S. Nelson said.

Hill and her 12-year-old daughter, Trisha Delcoure, were riding in the family's 1993 Taurus when Jake L. Fry, son of her boyfriend, Loren Fry, lost control and collided with a 2005 Toyota Sequoia near Woodland on Feb. 26.

The boy died at a hospital the next day. Hill, her daughter and two people in the sport utility vehicle were treated for minor injuries.

Loren Fry has declined comment since the crash.

''I know it seems somewhat of a no-brainer that this is a crime,'' Nelson said, ''but truly, when you're talking about someone's life, both the life lost and the person charged, the one thing you need most is a thorough investigation.

''This young boy would most likely be alive today if the adult here had done the adult thing and said no.''

The manslaughter charge is based on the belief of authorities that Hill willfully disregarded what she knew were the dangers of allowing the boy behind the wheel.

''As a result of our investigation with a number of witnesses, plus some past history, it appears as though this may not have been the first time she allowed Jake to drive,'' Nelson said.

There has been no evidence to indicate that Hill was intoxicated or otherwise impaired, but a blood sample was taken and investigators are awaiting the results of laboratory tests, he added.

Immediately following the crash, Hill told investigators she was unable to recall much after the boy got into the driver's seat, Nelson said earlier.

''The story we were told was that he was asking if he could drive,'' Nelson said.

[cherry]

remember...she is older..not old....but it doesn't matter....

any senior citizen gets a pass on any car accident just because.....

if this would have been an 18 yro.....wow, nellie.....20 yrs in prison for sure....

the senior lobby has managed not only to grab most of our tax dollars but a hold on free coffee and free crimes.....

I am sick of it.....