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Apart from the Porsche much the same thing recently happened at my local shops. An old woman was doing a U-turn but pushed the accelerator when she wanted the brake and wound up mounting the gutter and hitting a shopfront. No one was hurt. But a few years ago an old driver killed a child at a set of trafficlights when she did the same. It is really very very sad when something like that happens. Quite apart from the victims family, the driver is traumatised for life. It affects their health and some never recover, as I have seen.
The woman in this story will be upset and probably will never drive again but, really, she got off lightly for discovering that she can no longer drive. I'm very glad that dad took himself off the road before we had to force him off, and mum only drives locally and not at night. That is because they saw what happened to their parents. One of my grandfathers stopped (more correctly was stopped from) driving when he ran up the back of a car because he couldn't push the brake pedal hard enough. Nana had a collision with a street sweeper on a back street where they were the only vehicles on the road. The other grandfather caused an accident in which my grandmother was killed.
Sorry to put a dampener on a funny story - I shouldn't have - but dottery old drivers have been a serious and sad issue for me and the rave just went that way.
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