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Tight park? That's just over the top
Parking trouble reached new heights for one Warrnambool shopper on Friday when a driving mishap caused her car to smash through a tree and over another car in a busy CBD carpark.
The driver, in her 60s, was shaken but unhurt when her Ford Falcon crushed a tree and drove over an unoccupied car parked in the facing bay at the Ozone car park about 9.30am.
Senior Constable Jon Bamford, of Warrnambool police, said it appeared the driver had accidently hit the accelerator instead of the brake while trying to park.
“She has been taken to hospital just for a check-up and there was no drugs or alcohol involved,” he said.
Passers-by were keen to gather around and take photographs of the scene. While the accident no doubt gave them plenty to talk about over Christmas dinner, it meant headaches for the driver of the other car, Marie Mansbridge, who returned to her Toyota Yaris to be confronted with the damage.
“I came back and got a big surprise. It’s not a very good Christmas present,” she said.
The near-new company car was purchased in February.
“The car belongs to Emmanuel College, but it’s a disadvantage to me all the same,” Ms Mansbridge said.
“I am heading off for holidays on Monday and was going to take that car.”
Liam Fitzgerald witnessed the accident from his workplace at the Warrnambool Telstra Shop and said he had never seen anything like it.
“I was looking out the window and I suddenly saw the white car launch into the air and there was a big bang,” he said.
“I literally saw a flying car. It was bizzare.”
Rushing to the scene, Mr Fitzgerald said the driver was more concerned about the state of the other car.
“She said she didn’t know what happened,” he said.
“It’s probably quite lucky that the tree was between them or there probably would have been more damage.”
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Confused with life..
I don't want to jump on the "old people/licence" bandwagon but wow.
You learn til u die
Old bat musta shat her daks , she's gotta bloody good runup musta floored it
At 43 a wealth of info , but still heaps to learn
Make the stupid stop!
What relevance does this have to the story? Bloody journalists beat up everything.Originally Posted by benno9911
Confused with life..
That statement from her seems pretty relevant to me. Some old hag drove onto her car, the car which she was going to take on holidays on Monday. Puts her at a pretty big disadvantage and pretty pissed off i'm sure.
Does her comment on the accident not matter?
Make the stupid stop!
It was a Company Car, not even hers.
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walks barefoot
Ms Mansbridge was probably a catholic and saw it as an act of god but it disadvantaged her anyway. That's how I saw it. Didn't seem like she was distraught over it.
Your freedom ends where mine begins
Company car or not, I'd be pretty shitty that some oldy who can't drive ruined my plans to go on a holiday.
Yeah, definately think there needs to be driver testing after a certain age.
Lesson one can be "The brake is the one on the left", this session would be a 5 day program.
On a personal note, I cannot WAIT to get old so I can try that! Looks like it would be fun and it'll be all ok because I'm old.
i looked at the pictures first..
first thought: FAILCON
second thought: since when are you allowed to use company cars for non-business related matters?
Donati..Whoa Green
Its totally up to the company to decide what you can and cannot do with the car. If they allow you to have the car for a while than that's their choice.
One of my customers had a car accident and her company is allowing her to use a company car as a substitute for a long as she wants.
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Older drivers definaely need to take tests after a certain age, I know p-platers get a bad name and are still learning whilst on the road etc, but i could never imagine a p-plater causing this kind of accident. texting a carpark and causing a collision? yes. Driving on to someone elses car? no chance lol
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I can use my company car for what ever I want, all I need to do is notify them if I'm leaving the state with it.
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well fair enough. i just thought they could only be used for business matters.
but its true it does depend on the company privileges.
about the older people testing and such
dont they do it already for age of 70 - 75 or something ?
and also there was a call for older drivers to have plates notifying other drivers of their presence but it just turned into a government backlash about again picking on a minority.. however for some reason they have powers and nobody wants to help those "poor undeserving p platers"
Mucca Mad Boys
Only in a falconI would have payed to seen that especially if it got air like the telstra bloke says it did
pity it wasnt an orange taxi,then you could say its the aussie version of the general lee,lol
all we have to do now is wait for the stupid commercials from toyota & ford. something like buy a toyota yaris,not only good on fuel but make excellent landing pads for when friends drop in unexpected,lol
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PARTY AND BULLSHIT!
my god! i just figured something out!! mainly old people have falcons, so if your going out to do skids, buy a falcon, they'll never know!!
and how does she brake? mash her foot into the floor!? jeeeeezzzzz
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