Another Grim Reminder
Posted by Chief Oddball in the morning on July 18th, 2007I awoke today to discover another grim reminder in the local newspaper — a reminder of just how inexplicably dangerous it is to get behind the wheel in Florida.
Stephen Curtis Pierce, age 54, was backing out of his driveway on Anton Court, when he exited his Toyota Avalon while it was still in reverse around 10:22 p.m. Tuesday, reports Florida Highway Patrol.
The vehicle proceeded in reverse traveling clockwise, striking a mailbox and also pinning Pierce under the car. Piece died from the incident, FHP reports.
Naples Daily News
Did the guy just step out of the car while he was in the midst of backing down his driveway? Did he fall out? Even if he suffered a medical condition and had a heart attack, for example, how do you fall out of a moving car unless the door was already open?
I could try to wrap my head around this all day, and never get anywhere.
Maybe he saw some money on the street outside of his car and had to have it. “Hey look! A fiver!” SPLAT.
The way the piece is worded, it doesn’t sound like he fell out, though that could be entirely because of the way the article was written. But still…how does something like this happen?
You’re right about the wording. In fact, the way they put it — “he ‘exited his Toyota Avalon” — makes it sound like nobody knows why it happened. Since what I quoted is actually the entire article, I’d wager that information was pretty sketchy.
But yeah…another item in the long list of vehicular occurrences that I just plain don’t understand.