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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

[b]My mother gunned her car into a fence a few years back. [/b]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. [/quote]

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.

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