Car hits, kills marcher in PrideFest parade

Anchorage Daily News ^ | June 26th, 2011 | CASEY GROVE

[skeptoid]

A convertible carrying the grand marshal in Saturday's gay PrideFest parade struck and killed a man just as the event began in downtown Anchorage, police said.

[skeptoid]

. . . .. "It's a pure accident," Frank said. "(The driver) just panicked and kept hitting the accelerator and it kept jumping forward."

Bad day.

[driftdiver]

I wonder if he left skid marks.

[Responsibility2nd]

You do know that you can post more than 10 words in a thread, don't you?

[dead]

That's awful.

Police said the driver was Edith Bailey, 70

That's about the onset age for "forgot which one was the accelerator" disease.

[knarf]

I haven't read the report 'cause I'm still tryin' to digest a driver, so panicked he/she/it just keeps hitting the accelerator, says 'oops', does it again, oops, again, oops ... awwwww shit .... killed a guy

"Keep goin' chief?"

"Yeah ... the cops'll clean it up ... big smile, now .... we're on ...."

[dblshot]

Naw, he was rear ended, then got run over by a car.

[napscoordinator]

Prayers to family.

[Liberty Valance]

He was run over by a 1971 Triumph Stag? *ouch*

[SpringtoLiberty]

Would this be the “due penalty in the flesh” for their homosexual behavior?

[GOP_Party_Animal]

"(The driver) just panicked and kept hitting the accelerator and it kept jumping forward."

Drives like a woman too...

[jaydubya2]

Rear ended?

[agere_contra]

Police believe the 1971 Triumph Stag was traveling at a low speed when it struck Crump

Death can be so onomatopoeic

[Cicero]

The parade was cancelled. But they still seem to have managed a group lesbian hug of sympathy for the victim.

[skeptoid]

. . . . I'm still tryin' to digest a driver, so panicked he/she/it just keeps hitting the accelerator, says 'oops', does it again, oops, again, oops ... ... . ..

It sounds like the driver was not the owner.

I drove one of these types once and I recall the pedals being kinda crowded and 'different'.

[Jewbacca]

Rear end collision.

[Moose4]

My brother did some restoring on ‘60s and ‘70s British sports cars (TR4s, TR6s, Austins, etc.) and he mentioned more than once that the pedal arrangements took some getting used to. But it doesn’t seem like the kind of mistake you’d make more than, oh, I don’t know, ONCE?

}:-)4

[43north]

I lived in Anchorage in the late 1970’s. The queers were active then too. Usually they would have a “Ball” the night before what became the “Pride Parade” where they’d cross dress and just act so silly!

Well, one year some radical hetero threw a smoke bomb into the hotel “ballroom” and created a big fuss. I thought that was pretty funny. Can you imagine a large group of males dressed as females shrieking and running for the exits wearing high heel shoes?

[ilovesarah2012]

10 hurt when disoriented 91-year-old crashes car into SC family medical clinic waiting room

Eight people in the waiting room of a medical clinic were hurt Wednesday afternoon after a disoriented 91-year-old man hit the gas in his car instead of the brake, sending the vehicle over a curb from the parking lot and into the building, authorities said.

Four people in the lobby were critically injured and taken to a Greenville hospital, Anderson Emergency Medical Services spokesman Scott Stoller said. Six others, including the driver of the car and his wife, had less severe injuries and were taken to a hospital.

http://www.newser.com/article/d9o161vo1/10-hurt-when-disoriented-91-year-old-crashes-car-into-sc-family-medical-clinic-waiting-room.html

At some point, people need to stop driving.

[mbynack]

My brother did some restoring on ‘60s and ‘70s British sports cars (TR4s, TR6s, Austins, etc.) and he mentioned more than once that the pedal arrangements took some getting used to

I worked in a hot rod shop years ago and one of our projects was a TR-3 that we were fixing up for road racing. When we got done, the owner asked me if I wanted to test drive it on the track. I said sure. I tried to get in but my feet wouldn't fit. I have 14EE shoes and I couldn't push the clutch without hitting the brake or the accelerator without hitting the brake. I never got to drive it.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Grand Marshall Doug Frank: "It ran over a person, totally over," he said, sobbing. "This went from one of the best days of my life to the worst."

Yep, it's all about you, Doug.