Posted on 05/15/2022 8:42:41 AM PDT by billorites
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT)- A Wilmington woman is facing a Driving While Impaired charge tonight, after losing control of her vehicle in the Chick-fil-A drive thru. The accident happened Monday morning at the restaurant chain’s Monkey Junction location on College Road.
Video of the incident has gone viral. The 30-second clip has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on TikTok and Facebook.
The video, taken by another person in the drive thru line, starts as the woman is getting out of the driver’s side of her car, apparently trying to get condiments off a cart by the drive thru window. Almost instantly, her car begins rolling forward. As she runs beside the vehicle, which is travelling through the parking lot and towards a busy section of College Road, Chick-fil-A employees can be heard saying “Get your car!” and “This is why we’re concerned, ma’am.”
An employee suggests calling the police just as the woman’s car careens over a retaining wall, crashing into a ditch below. “Oh God! Please tell her to stop!” an employee says as she watches events unfold. A young man in a Chick-fil-A uniform runs towards the woman, who reportedly was able to get back into the car just before it crashed.
Family members say the woman’s vehicle was totaled in the crash, but she was not injured. They say when she was putting her drinks into the car’s cup holder, she accidentally knocked the gear shift into neutral without realizing it.
Highway Patrol confirms they responded to the crash at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 9. Family members who reached out to WECT say the woman in the video was charged with DWI, but not arrested. They questioned how she would have been able to get back inside a moving car if she had been impaired. They also said her blood alcohol level was .00. She was cited for failing a field sobriety test.
Family members say she has struggled with addiction in the past, but had been clean for months when she crashed her car. They say the ugly comments about the crash on social media have been difficult for her to deal with.
Chick-fil-A managers at the restaurant where the crash happened declined to comment for this story. When a reporter thanked them for their time, the employee who answered the phone responded, “My pleasure. Have a great day.”
This could happen to anyone, don’t have to be drunk. I myself have done this, getting out while in drive, but not all the way out, and quikcly applied the brake again. But she clearly was on something, as the nice ChickFilA ladies expressed “concern” well before this.
OMG!!!!!!
That is the one a few miles from me!!!!
I will personally whip that drunkard’s a$$ if this shuts down the restaurant.
She needs to skip jail and go straight to hell!!!! 🤬
Monkey Junction has a Chic-fil-A?. Shazam!
Zakley.
There are usually two lines there - this is the one my husband and I frequent - the first line on the left is the direct drive through, next to it is the line that leads into the drive through. where the cars wrap around the building in line.
Normally the parking lot is full and there are families and children all through that parking lot coming and going to and from the restaurant.
Maybe she will deal with her weakness as a drunk when she realizes she could have wiped out families with her idiocy.
If her car had kept going, she would have gone in direct traffic that has 4 busy lanes and caused multiple wrecks.
Idiot.
I hate being drunk in the morning.
Kamakaze pilot for Jesus?
“Social media are interactive digital channels that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.”
Sure sounds a lot like FR!
FR is most certainly a social media with very restrictive rules as to who gets to post. Much more restrictive than Twitter or Facebook.
Jim Robinson and company are quick to zot whoever they don’t deem desirable. Right?
I’ve had some of my posts yanked on several occasions.
Let’s not be blind to what we are and our own warts.
We’re basically an online “safe space” for people like us, on the right. And that’s perfectly fine, but let’s not pretend we’re not.
Among the most important things to know is to “know thyself”.
I thought social media were sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instragram. Is a site like this officially considered social media? Is social media anyplace online where people can make comments?
The person that wrote the article needs to look up the meaning of “careen” and tell me how that describes what happened with the car.
Yeah, click-bait verbiage used in that headline, and scattered with words to elevate the scene far above what it actually was. The car must not have been worth much if it was actually declared a total loss.
UNC-W student?
I think you stopped reading when you wanted to. The rest explains how FR is different. We don’t tie to each other here, merely respond. It’s not a *network* of users.
We post content to each other, but we don’t *follow* each other here or *like* each other’s posts.
If you want to define FR as social media, then I can’t stop you. It’s different though. It’s closer to a chat room from the old internet days than it is SM, at least IMHO.
I agree it’s not as sophisticated as some of the other social media sites, but the idea is the same. To share information, thoughts, opinions with others in the forum in order to influence, inform, amuse as well as motivate others to become activists for conservative causes.
Though it doesn’t specifically have a like or dislike button, the number of replies to a post is a kind of rudimentary like/dislike button.
Also there are ping lists which serve somewhat the same purpose as “following”.
Again these lack the sophistication of the tools available on some other social media sites, but the intent is the same.
Just MHO.
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