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Post by HARD ROCK UNIVERSE on Oct 21, 2005 13:07:08 GMT -5
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for three miles with the man's body through his windshield, police said.
Ralph Parker was stopped after he drove through a tollbooth on the Sunshine Skyway, Traffic Homicide Investigator Michael Jockers said. The toll taker called police, he said.
Parker was not likely to face charges because he did not appear to know what happened or where he was, said Bruce Bartlett, chief assistant in the Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney's Office.
"He may have somewhere in his mind have realized it was a crash, but immediately forgot about it," Jockers said.
The victim's leg was severed in the Wednesday night crash, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was 52.
Parker had renewed his license in 2003.
"That was the one thing he had, to get in his car and just drive for the sheer enjoyment of driving," Jockers said. Parker lived alone after his wife died in 1998, authorities said.
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Post by Equinox on Oct 21, 2005 18:36:03 GMT -5
I read that on CNN.
Crazy
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Post by buttheadpe on Oct 22, 2005 15:43:01 GMT -5
Weird ! At least it's not a hit and run !
Yeah, fill'er up, check the oil, and clean the guy in my windshield please !
All joking aside, this guy should be charged with something, cognisant or not.
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Post by kim on Oct 23, 2005 9:36:56 GMT -5
That's why I had one of them bug deflector thingys installed on my car.
Thanks Kim
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Post by rikki on Oct 23, 2005 15:23:39 GMT -5
He should have turned his wipers on.
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