Driven
“He had no idea he had been involved in an accident,” said St. Petersburg, Fla., police officer Mike Jockers. But indeed Ralph Parker, 93, had hit a pedestrian on a busy street at about 45 mph. The 52-year-old man smashed half-way through Parker’s windshield — and stayed there as Parker kept driving. He drove, apparently unaware of the body, until he got to a bridge’s toll plaza, three miles away. The toll taker thought the body on the car was a Halloween prank until Parker stopped to pay the toll — and the body slid the rest of the way through the windshield. When police asked Parker where the dead body in his car came from, he said it must have “fallen out of the sky.” Police took Parker’s license from him (it doesn’t expire for five more years), and will ask the motor vehicle department to conduct a competency hearing toward revoking it permanently. (St. Petersburg Times) ...One down, tens of thousands left to go.
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