Evidently there are no documented cases of people deliberately hitting things and lying about confusing the gas and brake pedal, although people disagree with experts who said George Russell Weller accidentally confused pedals completely explains the path of destruction of the Los Angeles Farmers Market. But some cases look awfully wierd, and would make a great hard-to-prove excuse like DUI or drugs in case somebody did do a deliberate attack.
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Pedal confusion = truck in store - a retailer near-miss | Fire Geezer
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MinnPostAug 2, 2013 - It turns out, however, that storefront crashes are not oddities. ... A 74-year-old woman confused the gas and brake pedals on her car and plowed into .... if damage is done, the driver is stepping way too hard on the gas pedal.- paper published the other day by Robert Reiter with Dean C. Alberson and Felicia J. Desorcie, both with the Texas Traffic Institute at Texas A & M University, estimates that there may be as many as 50 to 60 store front crashes each day in the U.S., about 20 of those involving convenience stores.
Reiter says he used to work on terrorism issues but then "decided that the worst terrorist was an 84-year-old man on meds behind the wheel of a Buick." Wright sustained a knee injury when a car crashed into a 7-11 where he was shopping.
een both varieties in the Twin Cities. Last year, Rudolph's rib emporium on Lyndale and Franklin saw its corner entrance and sign crushed when a passenger van drove into it. In late 2010, a drunken driver crashed into the Juut Salonspa on the corner of Hennepin and Lake in Minneapolis, leaving two pedestrians with injuries, albeit minor ones.
Rash of crashes
In fact, there was a rash of such crashes in Minnesota that year, at a Stillwater pizzeria, a Blaine flower shop and a pub in Rosemount. In St. Paul that year, a toddler left buckled in a car seat freed herself, crawled into the driver's seat of her mom's SUV and put the car into gear. It crashed into a Cost Cutters salon.
the complaint, “the parking area at the restaurant was specifically designed so that automobiles were required to park close to and facing in toward the restaurant, in close proximity to patrons dining inside the Restaurant.” Further, “there were no wheel stops, bollards (vertical concrete and steel tubes planted in the ground), curbing or barriers of any kind to prevent an automobile from crashing into the restaurant and its patrons.”
Driver Mistakes Brake for Gas Pedal Crashes into Coco's Restaurant
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Nov 26, 2013 - Police in Citrus Heights are saying that an elderly driver looks to haveconfused the gas pedal for the brake pedal and crashed into Coco's ...
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Aug 6, 2010 - When you skim through news accounts of vehicle-into-building crashes, you'll notice that drivers in such accidents often confuse their gas and ...
Investigators said George Weller, who was 86 at the time, mistakenly stepped on the gas instead of the brake and then panicked. He was doing up to 60 mph when he plowed through the market.Weller was convicted of 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and was sentenced to probation. It was not immediately clear how fast the car in Saturday’s crash was going.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/driver-plows-crowd-venice-beach-boardwalk-article-1.1417146#ixzz2rI6RTnix
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Investigators determined that Weller mistook his gas pedal for the brake
But others suspected it was deliberate:
The Farmers' Market - Human Kinetics
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Human KineticsOn July 16, 2003, 86-year-old George Russell Weller drove his Buick ... it was no accident—that Weller deliberately drove his car through the crowded market. ... staring straight ahead with a death grip on the steering wheel, and with her foot ...
George Weller Guilty in Famer's Market Crash - Broadband Reports
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Broadband ReportsOct 21, 2006 - 30 posts - 10 authorsGeorge Russell Weller -- who was 86 years old at the time of the July ... I feel for him, but his own deliberate actions - especially the hit and run .... Sad all around , for thosekilled, the 70 injured some who will live in pain for life.
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