27th Aug 2003
Coincidence?
Last month, CNN reported:
SANTA MONICA, California — An 86-year-old man who drove his mid-size Buick through a crowded farmers’ market Wednesday told police he couldn’t stop and may have hit the accelerator instead of the brake, Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts Jr. said.
Nine people were killed, including a 3-year-old girl, authorities said. The more than 54 hurt include 14 people with critical injuries, they said. Two of those critically injured are under the age of 2.
Today, the New York Times reports:
A 9-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, left alone yesterday in the girl’s home in Little Ferry, N.J., climbed into the family sport utility vehicle and drove it almost a mile to Hackensack, where it crashed into four parked cars in a supermarket parking lot and struck a pedestrian.
… The pedestrian, an 84-year-old man whom the police would not identify, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. The police said he had suffered bruises and scratches that were not life-threatening and was in stable condition late yesterday.
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