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Mum hit by car at petrol station
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Fast enough to kill someone in our local tesco a few years back. If I remember correctly the driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake and squashed a passing pedestrian against the wall of the shop. She didn't survive.
Clearly not the case in the OP's instance, but getting up enough speed in a petrol station to do someone a mischief is perfectly possible.
In that case, it was very probably the presence of the wall that caused the fatal injuries.0 -
Absurd? Youve never worked in a petrol station have you, Cars move slow through the forecourt.My God, you just can't help being nasty, can you.
Don't be so flippin' absurd. My old granny can walk faster than that and she's been dead for thirty years.
Nasty? The OP is digging for compo.0 -
Absurd? Youve never worked in a petrol station have you, Cars move slow through the forecourt.
Nasty? The OP is digging for compo.
You know very, very little about me. So I will let that pass. However, no one needs to have actually worked on a petrol forecourt, to know that cars move a good deal faster than one or two miles per hour when approaching and leaving the forecourt.
How fast do you think this car was going?
Or how fast was the car that did this?
Or this?
The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Those photos mean nothing without sources attached to them!
They could have been cars who lost control on roads and skidded into forecourts.
Well here's the source to the car in the bush by the petrol station.. driver in 80's who accidentally put pedal to wrong metal!
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/update_driver_in_mid_80s_escaped_unhurt_after_drama_at_swaffham_supermarket_petrol_station_1_16646760 -
Those photos mean nothing without sources attached to them!
They could have been cars who lost control on roads and skidded into forecourts.
Well here's the source to the car in the bush by the petrol station.. driver in 80's who accidentally put pedal to wrong metal!
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/update_driver_in_mid_80s_escaped_unhurt_after_drama_at_swaffham_supermarket_petrol_station_1_1664676
But according someone on this thread, it would have been impossible for a car to go any faster than two miles per hour.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Just a couple of weeks and melbell et al will be back in school.One important thing to remember is that when you get to the end of this sentence, you'll realise it's just my sig.0
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If they've not been asked to "take a time-out" before that.0
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