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Sutton Asda re-opens after car crashes through wall



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Published Date:
26 March 2008
A MOTORIST was taken to hospital and treated for shock after she crashed into the wall of Sutton's Asda supermarket on Wednesday morning.
The elderly shopper smashed into another car before hitting the store at around 8.40am after she accidentally pressed the accelerator pedal instead of the brakes on her red VW Golf.

Supermarket bosses evacuated the store while police and firefighters closed off part of the car park, before Asda was reopened for normal business at around 11.30am.

An eye-witness told Chad: "I was getting out of my car to go shopping when I saw the woman coming around the car park. She was travelling fast and at first I thought it was a joy-rider.

"She hit the wall hard and is lucky to have escaped any serious injury. I went to help her, she was conscious and seemed ok. She told me that her brakes had failed on her car."

Watch manager Mark Dooley, of Ashfield Fire Station, told Chad the crash had been an unfortunate accident.

"The elderly lady hit the wrong pedal and hit another car," he said.

"Her car then went through a number of car park spaces and hit the wall. There were no serious injuries, but the woman was treated for shock and the man in the other car was also taken to hospital."

A spokeswoman for Asda told Chad: "We re-opened for normal business at around 11 30am. We have had to cordon off a number of tills down the middle where the damage has been done."

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Mooney,

Mansfield 26/03/2008 19:32:15
Another flagrant misuse of a child and toddler spot. God knows that there aren't enough spots in this supermarket, yet there are bay upon bay of "disabled" spaces - often taken by people with no more of a disability than a limp, using their badge handed out at random by the councils. I wonder how many times this woman has been told by friends and relatives to think about stopping driving, and told them all that sh eis perfectly safe, how unsafe do you need to be to keep your foot on the accelerator after you have gone up a very high kerb and into a wall????

It's about time supermarkets enforced their parking restrictions, lets not not just single out Asda here, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury are all as bad, either that or lets all us parents struggling with babies and toddlers and shopping, start parking in the disabled bays - or at least let people who park incorrectly aware of it!!
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PeterC,

Cambs 26/03/2008 23:36:08
Aren't parent + toddler bays just provided by supermarkets to prevent kids slamming doors into other customers cars?? I can't see any need otherwise.

Anyway.. this has nothing to do with this woman's accident, would you be more happy if she'd crahsed into the wall neatly infront of a disbled bay?
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Trev-Kirkby,

GOSPORT 27/03/2008 07:53:08
I can't beleive some of the stupid comments above. The oil or parking places had nothing to do with this.

She was just a confused old woman that pressed the accelerator instead of the break pedal. She is probably in so much shock that she will never have courage to drive again.

I'm a bit suprised if Asda did not have a structural integrity report carried out before opening a couple of hours later though, possibly putting the public at risk.
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Trev-Kirkby,

GOSPORT 27/03/2008 07:55:14
I can't beleive some of the stupid comments above. The oil or parking places had nothing to do with this.

She was just a confused old woman that pressed the accelerator instead of the break pedal. She is probably in so much shock that she will never have courage to drive again.

I'm a bit suprised if Asda did not have a structural integrity report carried out before opening a couple of hours later though, possibly putting the public at risk.
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A Women,

Sutton 27/03/2008 10:48:49
I think it sounds like the elderly lady shouldn't have been driving in the first place. It's a serious matter to confuse the break pedal with the accelerator and then not to react and take her foot off the gas.

What if there was children around when this happened?

A witness also said she thought it was a joy rider in the car park, so the lady obviously wasn't obeying the car park speed limit.

If this would have been a young boy in a modified car, there would have been alot more consequences and speculation about the accident.

The lady is most probably not the first (or last) to hit the wrong pedal by accident, but surely you would react almost instantly and correct it. Not wait until you have almost drove through a wall before you realise you actually wanted to break!
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infowars.com,

27/03/2008 11:51:13
Well said Trev of Kirkby.

"but surely you would react almost instantly and correct it. Not wait until you have almost drove through a wall before you realise you actually wanted to break!"
Not if you think your foot IS on the brake, like the old lady said, she thought her brakes had failed, to her she WAS pressing the brake (even though she wasn't)

IMO the elderly should be retested every year after 65 years of age.
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Mooney,

27/03/2008 18:49:47
PeterC - Amazing comments, do you really believe that toddler spaces are there to protect your car doors?? I'm assuming you were just trying to provoke a reaction with your comments and not actually that dim to believe your own thoughts?

I agree that the type of bay that she was attempting to park in is a side issue to the accident, but neverthless, she was still purposely parking her car in a bay not designated for her use - following all of the recent uproar in Mansfield about incorrect parking in disabled bays due to the lack of parking enforcement, I would think that it is a perfectly reasonable argument/comment that parent and toddler bays should be used for parent and toddlers. I can only assume PeterC that you are not a father, or if you are you have never taken your baby or toddler on a shopping trip.
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