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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Wisconsin Camry Crash Driver Error UPDATED 5 25 PM PDT With Surveillance Video Link
76 year old Myrna Marseille swore she was standing on the brake pedal of her 2009 Toyota Camry when it crashed into the Sheboygan Falls YMCA on March 29.
Nope.
The Sheboygan Falls Police Department and the Wisconsin State Patrol held a news conference this morning in which they announced the results of their investigation: Driver error. Myrna was on the gas, not the brake, and the brakes were found to be in perfect working order.
Witnesses who Myrna said told her they saw brake lights? Well, they did...but surveillance video (click here to watch it from WISN-TV) from two cameras (the Y and the Sheboygan Falls PD share a common parking lot) shows they came on after the car hit the building. And the police say those witnesses told them thats when they saw them.
The video indicates the car moved at the same constant speed (estimated by police at 10-15 miles per hour) across the parking lot, into the parking space, over the berm and into the building.
Police Chief Steven Riffel says NHTSA (whose report wont be ready for four months) has told him there was nothing in the vehicle diagnostics to contradict the conclusion of driver error.
No decision yet on whether Myrna will be cited.
So the streak continues. The one where unintended acceleration events are investigated and found to be a case of the driver standing on the wrong pedal.
Full story including a link to the complete video replay of the news conference from The Sheboygan Press.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Hitman Challenger UPDATE The Real Deal Revealed updated 5 50 PM
The mystery (well, at least part of it) of "Hitman" and the $29,100 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 auction is over.
Brad Davis at Glenn E. Thomas Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep confirms that the dealership did honor the $29,100 auction as Hitman said...but for a different car of arguably higher value.
Jonny Lieberman at Autoblog got it right...Hitman (real first name Alex) went home in a new 2010 Challenger SRT-8 instead of the 2009 with 500 miles on the odometer. Davis tells me the 09 was sold to another client last week while the auction was in dispute.
Hitman was offered his pick of three 2010 Challenger SRT-8s and chose a black one. The 09 was blue.
Hitman also gets $2,000 worth of Mopar accessories of his choosing.
All this leaves his cheering section at the ChallengerTalk Forums wondering why "Hitman"s been so uncommunicative since taking delivery of the car on Saturday. If anything, he won bigger. A poster who says he talked to "Hitman" says hes under legal constraints about what he can discuss...but if so, why was Brad Davis so willing to divulge details?
Dunno. Tirekicker only pawn in game of life.
If you want more, theres still a fair amount of head-scratching going on at the ChallengerTalk forums, where the auction thread, started by "Hitman" on March 13, just had its 400,000th page view today. Pick it up from where we broke the story this afternoon here.
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Brad Davis at Glenn E. Thomas Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep confirms that the dealership did honor the $29,100 auction as Hitman said...but for a different car of arguably higher value.
Jonny Lieberman at Autoblog got it right...Hitman (real first name Alex) went home in a new 2010 Challenger SRT-8 instead of the 2009 with 500 miles on the odometer. Davis tells me the 09 was sold to another client last week while the auction was in dispute.
Hitman also gets $2,000 worth of Mopar accessories of his choosing.
All this leaves his cheering section at the ChallengerTalk Forums wondering why "Hitman"s been so uncommunicative since taking delivery of the car on Saturday. If anything, he won bigger. A poster who says he talked to "Hitman" says hes under legal constraints about what he can discuss...but if so, why was Brad Davis so willing to divulge details?
Dunno. Tirekicker only pawn in game of life.
If you want more, theres still a fair amount of head-scratching going on at the ChallengerTalk forums, where the auction thread, started by "Hitman" on March 13, just had its 400,000th page view today. Pick it up from where we broke the story this afternoon here.
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