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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elderly
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To: AQGeiger
I didn't know a car could "shoot backward" of it's own Accord. Well, after all, it WAS a Honda dealership.
To: A Ruckus of Dogs
Test drive accidents are more common than you might think. People are looking at the car, not traffic or the road. A common accident is people pulling out into traffic and getting hit during a test drive.
Thats why many dealerships on busy streets will have the salesman drive the car to a less congested area first before turning over control to the customer.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:32:33 PM PDT
by
monday
To: frogjerk
"If it was a SUV... "
A SUV would take the whole neighborhood down. Thank God it was a Honda Accord.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:32:55 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: soundandvision
She shouldn't be driving anymore.
To: soundandvision
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. Is this Clara Harris's grandmother perhaps?
To: soundandvision
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:35:41 PM PDT
by
NRA1995
("The Minuteman Project: doing the job our government doesn't want to do")
To: anniegetyourgun
Why did they need a new car? Did she wreck the one they had?
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:36:06 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(If you want to have a good time, you have to have a good watch!)
To: duckman
"What's age got to do with it? I thought all woman drove like that."
I thought all men drove recklessly.
~good driver who happens to be a woman.
To: AQGeiger
I didn't know a car could "shoot backward" of it's own
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:38:15 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: OXENinFLA
She must have tried to drive one of those new fangled cars where they switch the gas and brake peddle around.
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No . . . I think it was newer fangled car . . . NO PEDALS . . . works by thought control. Someone should contact George Felos !!! ;-))
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:38:51 PM PDT
by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!! -- Impeach Greer !!!.)
To: soundandvision
![](http://www.pickeringcreek.com/newcig.gif)
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Geez, imagine if it were an SUV... |
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:39:16 PM PDT
by
Fintan
(Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
To: Petronski
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:39:50 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(If you want to have a good time, you have to have a good watch!)
To: GeekDejure
peddle = pedals
OOPS!!
Well, I did get Brakes right and didn't say Breaks.
To: monday
I got a speeding ticket on my last test drive, you really aren't at your best during a test drive.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:44:41 PM PDT
by
discostu
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
To: soundandvision
"Panicked? Panicked??! At what?"
At being behind the wheel after 30 years.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:47:18 PM PDT
by
highnoon
(He who controls the spice, controls the universe.)
To: mlc9852
And they vote as effectively as they drive.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:50:44 PM PDT
by
verity
(A mindset is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: blackie
LOL!
I remember the first time behind the wheel of an SUV.
Complete personality change.
First thing I asked was "What can I run over in this?"
Then my Sarge told me to get out of the Humvee.
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:51:27 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Restrain the duck, he'll tell us all he knows once he's plucked. -Chief Interrogator Bluejay)
To: soundandvision
![](http://www.goofyface.com/goofsend46.jpg)
Oops!
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:52:18 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: highnoon
"Panicked? Panicked??! At what?" Sticker shock.
![](http://www.netzmafia.de/skripten/sicherheit/panic.gif)
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posted on
04/15/2005 12:56:38 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(TV News and the MSM - - - ROTFLMAO)
To: hispanichoosier
States should seriously think about re-testing senior citizens every 2 or 3 years once they pass the age of 70. I agree. But won't happen because the AARP will cry age discrimination and insist that seniors' sensibilities are more important than the lives of accident victims.
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