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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Fla. Woman, 81, Crashes Car at Dealership
2005-04-15
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall. ``She must have panicked,'' said Joe Sica, sales manager at Honda of Fort Myers.
Or she was senile, it happens.
The no-longer new Honda Accord shot backward after Dorothy Byrum got behind the wheel and apparently stepped on the gas wrong pedal Wednesday. The open car door hit her 88-year-old husband, Robert, and the salesman. Then the car struck the parked car, the tree and the wall. The air bag deployed, and Byrum was not injured. Her husband was knocked down but was in good condition the following day. The salesman was released after treatment and is expected to be out of work for about a week, Sica said. The car was written off.
2005 HONDA Accord EX, 1k, AC, mnrf, keyless, FWD, ABS, cruz, PW, PS, PB, driven by little old lady in dealership, $22975, call dlr
Posted by:Steve White

#9  This happens all too often in Florida. And seems it's rarely the oldster's fault, well maybe sometimes. In any event, you have to real careful in parking lots, but it does keep the adrenal glands pumping. Cause when you turn 65, you're forced to move to Florida. Or so it seems.
Posted by: Right in Florida   2005-04-15 10:02:01 PM  

#8   leather pants make me sweat unless I powder my ...

No Iron Butts for you!!
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-15 9:56:46 PM  

#7  45 y.o. - 275 lbs; 6'-2" with a Wyatt Earp/Fu Manchu 'stache... does that count? BTW - leather pants make me sweat unless I powder my ...well, you get the picture
Posted by: Frank G   2005-04-15 6:58:15 PM  

#6   I sincerely doubt the salesman will be back to work in a week. That delayed whiplash will kick in once his friends talk him into talking to a lawyer.
Posted by: Stephen   2005-04-15 6:48:55 PM  

#5  But if you aren't at least 40 years old, 300+ pounds, bald as a baby's ass and have a full handlebar mustache - you'll look out of place.

I'm 45, and that's the only qualification I meet. :)

(178 lbs, still have a thick head of hair but a lot of it gray, and a beard, but close-cut)
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-15 5:11:10 PM  

#4  No such thing as negative publicity. Give the salesman a spif.
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-04-15 5:01:29 PM  

#3  Hey, B-O-R, ever hear of Bike Week in Daytona Beach? Only 500k of bikers from all over the world and lots of them are over 80!! This year we had a young mother backing out of her driveway and hitting a chick biker riding in front of her man and killing her. The guy gets off his hog and beats the living beegeezus out of the lady. You should have seen the photos. She was remorse and full of guilt (member of the local chamber) and refused to press charges. So, come on down and ride. But if you aren't at least 40 years old, 300+ pounds, bald as a baby's ass and have a full handlebar mustache - you'll look out of place.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2005-04-15 3:28:15 PM  

#2  Old people retire to Miami,
Their parents go to Ft Myers.
Posted by: Capsu78   2005-04-15 3:10:54 PM  

#1  It always seems that weird incidents where objects and people are hit occur in FL. I will never, EVER, ride a motorcycle in that state.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-04-15 2:34:05 PM  

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