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Fla. Woman, 81, Crashes Car at Dealership
AP National News ^
| April 15, 2005, 11:46 AM EDT
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/15/2005 12:15:31 PM PDT by soundandvision
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall. "She must have panicked," said Joe Sica, sales manager at Honda of Fort Myers.
The new Honda Accord shot backward after Dorothy Byrum got behind the wheel....the car was written off.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elderly
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Panicked? Panicked??! At what?
To: soundandvision
So, did they try to sell her another one?
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:17:07 PM PDT
by
NRA1995
("The Minuteman Project: doing the job our government doesn't want to do")
To: soundandvision
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:17:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Entrepreneurs find a need and fill it. Politicians create a need and fill it........)
To: soundandvision
She probably stepped on the gas instead of the brake, and then panicked.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:17:23 PM PDT
by
KJC1
To: soundandvision
You break it, you buy it?
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:17:37 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?)
To: soundandvision
Lovely to look at
Delightful to hold
But if you break it
Consider it sold.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:17:39 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(So many kooks. So little time.)
To: soundandvision
Panicked? Panicked??! At what?New car smell.
I use it to scare kids on Halloween.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:18:27 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Time Ebbs No Rankle)
To: soundandvision
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:18:47 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: soundandvision
I've got this car,-- brand new, just driven once by a little old lady.....
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:19:09 PM PDT
by
ladtx
( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
To: soundandvision
I didn't know a car could "shoot backward" of it's own accord. The writer of the article likely forgot to mention the part about the lady putting her foot on the gas, thinking it was the brake, while the car was in reverse.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:19:13 PM PDT
by
AQGeiger
(Have you hugged your soldier today?)
To: Lazamataz
I always panic when I drive Hondas.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:19:23 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
To: soundandvision
Will be written off as another disoriented senior. These incidents are common in FL.
To: Constitution Day
That's what I would say...
But nowdays they have everything insured because they know that some people that come in to test drive are dead beats and if something happened during the test drive they would be out a car... hence write off.
To: soundandvision
She must have tried to drive one of those new fangled cars where they switch the gas and brake peddle around.
To: soundandvision
the car was written off.What about the people who were run down? Were they written off as well?
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: RexBeach
I always panic when I drive Hondas.Stop stealing them, then.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:21:09 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Time Ebbs No Rankle)
To: soundandvision
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:21:10 PM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: AQGeiger
Figures... good ole:
To: soundandvision
Let me guess. She could hardly see above the steering wheel too.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:21:16 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: soundandvision
Wow, an elderly person losing control of a car and crashing. You don't hear that every single day...
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:21:16 PM PDT
by
Cinnamon Girl
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