Volvo SUV plowed into Whole Foods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Authorities have not released any info on driver and they usually do when the driver is elderly. Also the vast majority of accidents are caused by teenagers and drunk drivers.

Perhaps, but the specific genre of "driving into a building" accidents are almost always caused by a confused elderly person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Authorities have not released any info on driver and they usually do when the driver is elderly. Also the vast majority of accidents are caused by teenagers and drunk drivers.

Perhaps, but the specific genre of "driving into a building" accidents are almost always caused by a confused elderly person.

The news is cutting back on saying who the driver was, for this very reason. Families need to step up, and not just wait for the inheritance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was also the incident near Chevy Chase Circle when an elderly driver killed 2 people at the Parthenon restaurant. That was almost 2 years ago and I've never been able to find any news about what happened to the driver, who wasn't even named in the initial media coverage. Presumably they were charged with *something* and their license was revoked at least? But who knows - we treat dangerous drivers very differently if they're elderly. Which is ridiculous btw.

+1

They should have their licenses revoked on the spot. Many elderly drivers know full well that they should not be driving, but endanger people anyway, then play dumb when they are caught. Shameful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Likely an elderly driver that should have had their license revoked 5+ years ago.

+1

Probably ten plus years ago.

In McLean there were three incidents in two weeks, recently: Santinis, Truist Bank, and a dry cleaner, all on the same road. All involved elderly drivers driving THROUGH the front of the store, narrowly missing humans. When are we going to tell people of a certain age to turn in their licenses? If people can't go to work (or the grocery, or the bank, or most any errand) without fear of being killed by a car IN the store??

When you tell young, drinking drivers not to speed at over 100 mph...

Where are those? I haven't seen any of those, because they know enough to take Ubers, most of the time. Why can't elderly do the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Likely an elderly driver that should have had their license revoked 5+ years ago.

+1

Probably ten plus years ago.

In McLean there were three incidents in two weeks, recently: Santinis, Truist Bank, and a dry cleaner, all on the same road. All involved elderly drivers driving THROUGH the front of the store, narrowly missing humans. When are we going to tell people of a certain age to turn in their licenses? If people can't go to work (or the grocery, or the bank, or most any errand) without fear of being killed by a car IN the store??

When you tell young, drinking drivers not to speed at over 100 mph...

Is this a joke?

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does your car insurance pay to fix up the damage to the grocery store? That is going to be a huge bill.

Doubtful. Most stop at 100k

Why didn’t this car have auto braking? My Honda stops automatically if I try to run into things.

LOL. Care to elaborate? Are you trying to make stores drive throughs, too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your car insurance pay to fix up the damage to the grocery store? That is going to be a huge bill.

Doubtful. Most stop at 100k

Why didn’t this car have auto braking? My Honda stops automatically if I try to run into things.

LOL. Care to elaborate? Are you trying to make stores drive throughs, too?

A lot of cars have auto braking that works if there are kids behind the car, other cars braking suddenly in front of the car and you'd think it would work on a building too.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t call this store “the fresh fields” can you even say you’re from here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does your car insurance pay to fix up the damage to the grocery store? That is going to be a huge bill.

Doubtful. Most stop at 100k

Why didn’t this car have auto braking? My Honda stops automatically if I try to run into things.

LOL. Care to elaborate? Are you trying to make stores drive throughs, too?

A lot of cars have auto braking that works if there are kids behind the car, other cars braking suddenly in front of the car and you'd think it would work on a building too.

This is true, I’m not sure I could do this in my Subaru unless I disabled the auto braking thing. But it can be annoying in urban traffic so I can see why someone might.

[Anonymous]

"a black Volvo with temporary Maryland tags" -- plates check out

https://patch.com/maryland/bethesda-chevychase/driver-crashes-bethesda-whole-foods-injuring-woman-officials

[Anonymous]

They said the passenger was her daughter. Now that could be an older daughter and therefore an older woman but I am guessing not.

My guess is that she meant to reverse out of the parking space and somehow accelerated forward instead, maybe because the car was still unfamiliar. Why she wasn't able to hit the brake before she got to the seafood counter is curious. She would have gone over the curb, onto the sidewalk, through 2 sections of glass doors and multiple produce bins so that should've been a clue she needed to hit the brakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Authorities have not released any info on driver and they usually do when the driver is elderly. Also the vast majority of accidents are caused by teenagers and drunk drivers.

Perhaps, but the specific genre of "driving into a building" accidents are almost always caused by a confused elderly person.

The news is cutting back on saying who the driver was, for this very reason. Families need to step up, and not just wait for the inheritance.

How old was the driver?

[Anonymous]

I am giving up my license as soon as I claim social security. So many of these stories and whenever they don’t mention details about the driver, it’s a clear sign it’s a senior citizen, not a high school senior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They said the passenger was her daughter. Now that could be an older daughter and therefore an older woman but I am guessing not.

My guess is that she meant to reverse out of the parking space and somehow accelerated forward instead, maybe because the car was still unfamiliar. Why she wasn't able to hit the brake before she got to the seafood counter is curious. She would have gone over the curb, onto the sidewalk, through 2 sections of glass doors and multiple produce bins so that should've been a clue she needed to hit the brakes.

My mother gunned her car into a fence a few years back. She meant to back out of a parking space, but she went forward instead. She knocked a large chunk of the fence down and drove right over it into the BMW sales lot next door. Thank God she stopped before she hit a brand new BMW.

She swears to this day that she had her foot "hard on the brake" the entire time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said the passenger was her daughter. Now that could be an older daughter and therefore an older woman but I am guessing not.

My guess is that she meant to reverse out of the parking space and somehow accelerated forward instead, maybe because the car was still unfamiliar. Why she wasn't able to hit the brake before she got to the seafood counter is curious. She would have gone over the curb, onto the sidewalk, through 2 sections of glass doors and multiple produce bins so that should've been a clue she needed to hit the brakes.

My mother gunned her car into a fence a few years back. She meant to back out of a parking space, but she went forward instead. She knocked a large chunk of the fence down and drove right over it into the BMW sales lot next door. Thank God she stopped before she hit a brand new BMW.

She swears to this day that she had her foot "hard on the brake" the entire time.

This is so wild to me, because it takes THREE major errors (just like this Whole Foods case, and so many others). (1) You mix the break and the gas, (2) you mix drive vs. reverse, and (3) you hit the pedal hard. Whether you're breaking or on the gas, or whether you reverse or move forward, you should not be pressing ANY pedal so hard.