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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 06:38 AM
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81 YO Woman Test Drives Car - Hits Husband, Salesman, Car, Tree, Wall....
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- An 81-year-old woman ready for a test drive hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall at a car dealership.

"She must have panicked," said Joe Sica, sales manager at Honda of Fort Myers.

The open car door hit Dorothy Byrum's husband and the salesman. The new Honda Accord kept going backward into a parked car, tree and wall. The air bag deployed, and Byrum was not injured.

Her 88-year-old husband Robert, who was knocked down, was in good condition Thursday after being admitted to Gulf Coast Hospital. Sica said the salesman was released after treatment and is expected to be out of work for about a week.

The car has been written off.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4382258/detail.html
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 06:41 AM
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1. Again
Must be Florida.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 07:10 AM
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3. predictable eh?
:D
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rfkrfk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 06:53 AM
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2. Honda's version of the Audi 5000
just wonderful
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 07:55 AM
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4. .
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 08:00 AM
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5. Ummm..maybe time for a certain lady to stop driving?
At least everyone's still alive.
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