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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read that it was a van driver who was dropping off kids and that they hit the gas instead of the break.  
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This is such a BS excuse. Who in the actual eff hits the gas instead of the brake?[/quote]

16,000 a year, in the US.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/frequency-of-car-crashes-where-drivers-hit-the-gas-instead-of-the-brake/

[quote]It's a type of car crash that is reported on quite a bit, where the driver smashes into a building because they hit the gas instead of the brake.

There are 44 crashes every day in the county, and they are the result of what police call "braking bad". This is in reference to drivers punching the gas, instead of tapping the brake. In most cases, the drivers are usually either very young or elderly.

The most recent one in the area happened at a bakery in Davis, where there were only minor injuries.

However, close calls like this happen more often than one might think.

The Answers Desk discovered that an estimated 16,000 car accidents are caused by pedal errors every year. [/quote][/quote]

This has to stop. Why do we tolerate this in our society? Motorized vehicles have no place in cities! No other modern city in the world has this many car deaths. [/quote]

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