This Confused Old Driver Hammered The Throttle And Drove Into A Swimming Pool
A 73-year-old woman has driven into a swimming pool in Colorado Springs after hoofing the wrong pedal… and keeping her foot hard down.
Anyone not in favour of compulsory driving re-tests raise your hand, and then pay attention to what happens when you get old, senile and incompetent. A choice of two fairly widely-spaced pedals can clearly become too much.
The confused driver was heading away from the Cheyenne Mountain Resort when she apparently clobbered the accelerator instead of the brake. Instead of calmly realising her mistake and swapping pedals, she simply left her foot in as though she was Fernando Alonso and started a game of car pinball with her surroundings.
Woman Drives Car Into Resort Swimming Pool https://t.co/IvOo1tVNRw pic.twitter.com/J2j2opFB73
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After striking another car the pensioner then changed course to bump up a hill – foot apparently still down – before hitting a fence, getting airborne and landing in the pool. Fortunately the pool itself was closed at the time, so no one was in the way to be injured by the colossal berk behind the wheel.
She had to be rescued by members of the public who were quickly on the scene. The panicked old lady was in shock, witnesses say, and couldn’t even bring herself to try to escape her watery casket on her own.
Naturally, the pool had to be drained to retrieve the car, and then cleaned and refilled. According to ITV news, the driver will face careless driving charges. How about just making sure she’s okay and then tearing her licence up?
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There’s somebody probably played too much BeamNG…
What on earth is that in the pool. First glance tells me its a Macan.
She might have seen what Clarkson did at that pool opening ceremony. 😂
OF COURSE IT’S A WOMAN
Its a scubaru
To the author of this article;
You have to understand the situation some elderly people are in. Yes, their faculties and overall skills are lesser than when they first picked up the wheel of a car but it’s a very depressing thing (especially for men I heard) to get their license revoked. Their only mean of transportation and independence is taken away from them. At that age, it is very difficult for them to be sitting on the sidelines as they are retired and are somewhat forgotten by their family. I advocate the license be revoked in the case mentioned above but you have to be a tiny bit more sensible to the problems and dilemmas that the elderly public face. Don’t go on a cyber rampage just to appear the tiniest bit more edgy.
Blatantly a fan of Keith Moon.
What car was it ??
I have to say I do agree with driving retests for all after 10 years or so, but my grandfather (now gone) did almost this exact same thing with me in the car - reversed backwards, tried to brake but foot slipped off and went onto the throttle instead - ended up firing the car at great speed backwards into his own house. We had been telling him to stop for quite a while, but the thing is as soon as you give up the licence you are effectively housebound, and basically admitting defeat on life. I can really understand elderly people wanting to hold onto their licences, but I also know that he was a bloody danger on the roads as well. Hopefully when we get level 5 autonomous vehicles we can avoid things like this happening.